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💊@fda.gov plans to send cease-and-desist letters to drug manufacturers with "deceptive ads" & aims to close the "adequate provision" loophole created in 1997, which could effectively remove drug ads from TV. 📺

Our @gohealio.bsky.social coverage is here ⬇️

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FDA cracks down on ‘misleading’ direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising
President Donald J. Trump signed a new memorandum that aims to crack down on “misleading” direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements. On Sept. 9, Trump issued a memorandum to HHS Sec...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The presence of cardiovascular risk factors may cause the heart to “age” faster than a person’s chronological age, and social determinants of health may exacerbate this heart age discordance

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Some people’s hearts age faster than they do
Presence of CV risk factors may cause the heart to “age” faster than a person’s chronological age, and social determinants of health may exacerbate this heart age discordance, resear...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Catch up on news from the European Society of Cardiology Congress:

🫀 Digitoxin for HFrEF
🫀 Beta-blockers after heart attack
🫀 New treatments for obstructive + nonobstructive HCM
🫀 Baxdrostat for resistant hypertension
🫀 + more

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European Society of Cardiology
The latest news from the ESC Congress, with physician perspective, researcher interviews and clinician insight.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A new scientific statement from @hfsa.bsky.social and @aspcardio.bsky.social classifies heart failure as a preventable condition against which preventive strategies can be deployed decades before symptom onset

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#CardioSky @gohealio.bsky.social

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‘We can’t treat our way out’: Scientific statement emphasizes heart failure preventable
A scientific statement on prevention of heart failure, a relatively new concept, has been released.The statement from the Heart Failure Society of America and the American Society for Preventive Cardi...
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August 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Misinformation about cholesterol ‘widespread’ on TikTok

Read more ⬇️ about research presented at #ASPC2025 that highlights the extent of cholesterol-related misinformation on social media and suggestion to combat it

#CardioSky @aspcardio.bsky.social

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Misinformation about cholesterol ‘widespread’ on TikTok
BOSTON — Much of the health-related content about cholesterol on social media, in particular TikTok, is inaccurate, according to research presented at the American Society for Preventive Cardiol...
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August 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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☕️ Healio is live in Boston for the
@aspcardio.bsky.social Congress on CVD Prevention

Stay tuned for the latest updates on prevention of heart disease and more!

#ASPC2025 #CardioSky @gohealio.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Members of an FDA expert panel discussed reassessing boxed warnings for menopausal hormone therapy and how to better educate patients and health care professionals

Read coverage from @gohealio.bsky.social, with reaction from experts in the field

#Endosky #Medsky

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FDA panel calls for label changes, more education on menopausal hormone therapy
Members of an FDA expert panel discussed reassessing boxed warnings for menopausal HT and how to better educate patients and health care professionals.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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@gohealio.bsky.social spoke with Dr. Gregory Marcus @ucsfhealth.bsky.social about the observed cardiovascular benefits and harms of coffee and recommendations for healthy consumption

#Cardsky #Medsky

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Q&A: Coffee may provide many heart-healthy benefits independent of caffeine
Drinking coffee may provide anti-inflammatory benefits leading to potential reductions in future risk for heart disease, according to a state-of-the-art review published in the European Heart Journal....
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July 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📰 #ENDO2025 may be over but Healio's coverage continues

Visit the link ⬇️ for the latest updates on:

📌 obesity drug benefits
📌 a new treatment for acromegaly
📌 once-monthly growth hormone therapy
📌 + more

@gohealio.bsky.social @reginaschaffer.bsky.social #Endosky

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July 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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May is #WomensHealthMonth

Don’t miss these @gohealio.bsky.social articles:

📌CV risk for women with autoimmune diseases: www.healio.com/news/cardiol...

📌Changes in moles during pregnancy: www.healio.com/news/dermato...

📌Eating plan when using GLP-1s for weight loss: www.healio.com/news/womens-...
Women with autoimmune disease face more death from heart disease than men
Fewer patients with autoimmune disease are dying due to cardiovascular disease, but women remain at higher risk vs. men, according to data published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes...
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May 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🔥Highlights from day 2 #ACC25

📌 ALPACA
📌 BHF PROTECT-TAVI
📌 FRESH-UP
📌 Evolut Low Risk at 5 years
📌 DapaTAVI
📌 ADVANCE
📌 & more

All Healio Cardiology Today coverage in the link below

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#CardioSky
American College of Cardiology
The latest news from the ACC Annual Scientific Session, with physician perspective, researcher interviews and clinician insight on cardiovascular prevention, heart failure and more.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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New data on lepodisiran presented at #ACC25:

📌 substantial reductions in lipoprotein(a) at 6 months and 1 year vs placebo in phase 2 ALPACA study

📌 drug will allow infrequent administration

📌 a cardiovascular outcomes trial is underway

More below

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Lepodisiran lowers Lp(a) substantially with infrequent administration
CHICAGO — Lepodisiran, a small interfering RNA agent, lowered lipoprotein(a) levels at 180 days, with a reduction of more than 90 percentage points with a single 400-mg dose compared with placeb...
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March 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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DapaTAVI at #ACC25:

📌 The SGLT2 inhibitor #dapagliflozin was safe and effective in older adults undergoing TAVR who were at high risk for #heartfailure

📌 Genital infections, hypotension more common

📌 A “practice-changing trial”

Article below

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Dapagliflozin benefits older patients with heart failure undergoing valve replacement
CHICAGO — The first trial to evaluate use of an SGLT2 inhibitor in people undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement showed benefit with dapagliflozin compared with standard care alone, i...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Is restricted fluid restriction or liberal fluid restriction better?

New data from the FRESH-UP study ⬇️

#ACC25 #CardioSky

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New data question benefit of fluid restriction in chronic heart failure
CHICAGO — A new study that looked at how liberal vs. restrictive fluid restriction impacts health status for patients with chronic heart failure found no added risks or benefits with either stra...
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March 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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More from day 1 #ACC25 …

📌 WARRIOR = the largest study of women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary disease

📌 Intensive medical therapy did not prevent 🫀 events for women with INOCA

📌 “This trial should not be considered a negative trial”

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Intensive medical therapy does not help or harm women with chest pain: WARRIOR
CHICAGO — Among women with suspected ischemia with nonobstructive coronary disease, an intensive medical therapy strategy did not reduce risk for major adverse CV events at 5 years compared with...
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March 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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🔥Hot off the press:

Highlights from day 1 at #ACC25 #CardioSky

📌 WARRIOR
📌 STRIDE
📌 API-CAT
📌 SOUL
📌 RIVAWAR
📌 & more in the link

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March 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Tap 🎤 ... tap 🎤 ... is this thing on?

Checking in from #AHA24 in Chicago

Check out all of Healio's great news coverage so far on all things cardiology!

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American Heart Association
The latest news from the AHA Scientific Sessions, with physician perspective, researcher interviews and clinician insight on cardiovascular prevention and more.
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November 17, 2024 at 7:24 PM