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No Shame in Choosing Not to Be a COVID-19 Hero
A revealing FaceTime call with her mother, a fellow cardiologist, caused Lisa Rosenbaum to change course during the COVID-19 surge. The NEJM columnist discusses her reasoning with Michelle O'Donoghue.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 25, 2020
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What Does VOYAGER PAD Mean for Antithrombotic Therapy?
What are the practice implications of the study that compared low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin vs rivaroxaban alone? How does it differ from COMPASS? Michelle O'Donoghue gets answers from the PI.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 03, 2020
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Dropping Aspirin Post PCI: Are We There Yet?
Is P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy post PCI ready to go mainstream? Michelle O'Donoghue considers the question of when to drop aspirin in the context of recent trials on antiplatelet therapy.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 30, 2020
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Why This Cardiologist Trained in Critical Care Medicine
Michelle O'Donoghue and Erin Bohula discuss issues in critical care cardiology, such as challenges for trainees and the need for more research to strengthen the lacking evidence base.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 15, 2019
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Women as One: 'The Sky's the Limit' for Women in Medicine
Roxana Mehran, MD, co-founder of Women as One, explains its mission to coach and mentor female physicians to develop leadership skills, learn negotiation tactics, and maximize their talents.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 08, 2019
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Apple Watch ECG: Helpful or Headache?
The new ECG feature on the Apple Watch has Michelle O'Donoghue, MD, wondering whether technology is outpacing our ability to interpret and analyze resulting data.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 17, 2019
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Requiem for Aspirin in Dual Antiplatelet Therapy?
Mounting evidence makes Dr Michelle O'Donoghue wonder whether the perennial question on the optimal duration of DAPT should be revised to: How soon can you drop the aspirin? Have you changed your practice?
Experts And Viewpoints, October 11, 2018
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Does (S)He Who Tweets Loudest Rule?
Michelle O'Donoghue, a slow adopter of social media, likes that it can provide a voice to all but worries that a vocal few dominate the conversation.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 28, 2018
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Plant-Based Diets as Medicine: Food for Thought
Best-selling author Caldwell Esselstyn and former ACC president Kim Williams discuss their embrace of a plant-based diet and what it will take for the medical profession to take nutrition seriously.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 30, 2018
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What Cardiologists Need to Know About New Diabetes Drugs
Drs O'Donoghue and McGuire discuss the data on the various SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP1 receptor agonists and when to consider prescribing them to your patients with diabetes.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 10, 2018
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What COMPASS and RE-DUAL Mean for Aspirin and Triple Therapy
Drs Cohen and O'Donoghue review new data from the COMPASS and RE-DUAL PCI trials and potential strategies for patients who need anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 04, 2018
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PURE Confusion: Observational Data Can't Tell Us What to Eat
The PURE study suggests that dietary saturated fat is good and carbohydrates bad, but nutritional guidelines should be based purely on randomized data, argues Dr O'Donoghue.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 11, 2017
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CANTOS: Dousing the Fire Within to Reduce CVD
Dr O’Donoghue discusses preliminary results from the CANTOS trial of canakinumab, a unique anti-inflammatory agent which represents a new pathway for treating cardiovascular disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 07, 2017
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A Personal Journey to a Plant-Based Diet
A health crisis led Dr O'Donoghue to a plant-based diet. She asks why clinicians pay more respect to pills than dietary changes when poor diet affects not only heart disease but most western diseases.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 17, 2017
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Should Cost of Therapy Be Considered in CV Guidelines?
New cardio drugs, such as PCSK9 inhibitors and the angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor, are expensive. Dr O'Donoghue asks whether that should affect guideline recommendations.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 06, 2017
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'One Brave Idea' Recipient on Predicting Who Will Develop CAD
Dr Calum MacRae, winner of the $75M One Brave Idea grant, explains to Dr O'Donoghue how he hopes to characterize biological differences between those who develop CAD and those who don't.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 26, 2017
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Two Years After DAPT Trial, We're Still Debating
Dr Michelle O'Donoghue asks for your opinion on the use of dual antiplatelet therapy beyond 1 year after stenting.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 19, 2016
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When Not in Rome: Is It OK to Skip Scientific Conferences?
As various outlets, such as theheart.org | Medscape, cover new research presented at meetings, are you still motivated to show up in person?
Experts And Viewpoints, September 20, 2016
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Cardiologists Need to Pay Attention to Diabetes Meds
Data from EMPA-REG and LEADER suggest that type 2 diabetes drugs can positively affect cardiovascular health. Cardiologists should pay attention, says Dr Michelle O'Donoghue.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 12, 2016
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Are All Relationships With Industry Inherently Bad?
Is the growing backlash that physicians and trialists face in their relationships with industry warranted in all cases?
Experts And Viewpoints, May 25, 2016