Cardiology Highlights / Week #9/ 2019 Click here to view online version Editor-in-Chief - Prof. Tienush Rassaf   Addressing medicine’s bias against patients with obesity People with weight problems often become objects of ridicule or mockery. This bias also exists in medicine. Interventions among students and healthcare trainees may be warranted to tackle medicine's bias against obese people.   Cardio-oncology: managing non-heart failure toxicities In recent years, focus has been on the early detection and prevention of heart failure. However, cancer therapies are associated with cardiovascular toxicities including cardiac arrhythmias, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease. Is it time to focus on non-heart failure toxicities?   Causes of sudden cardiac death in women The incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in women is significant, but lower than in men. As a consequence of the difference in population burden, the mechanisms and risk markers of SCD are not as well defined for women.   NYC Go Red for Women movement: STEM Goes Red Chelsea Beecher, Director of Development for the American Heart Association spoke to HealthManagement.org about the STEM Goes Red Movement, highlighting its goals, impact and future outlook.   Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: What is versus what will be Artificial intelligence will alter healthcare as we know it, augmenting some jobs and outright replacing others. Though we can’t be sure when this will happen, what’s most important for now is understanding what AI is and what it isn’t.   The wanton spread of medical misinformation The editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular scientific journals around the globe have issued a joint statement to stop the wanton spread of medical misinformation as it can cause significant harm to society and individuals.   Featured Products   Mindray Resona 7 Diagnostic ultrasound system   Hologic Viera™ Portable breast ultrasound system   Parker Laboratories SignaGel® Electrode gel   Hitachi Medical Systems Europe ECHELON Smart 1.5T MRI   Events Programme More events BSCI/BSCCT Spring Meeting 2019 16-17 May 2019 Cambridge, UK   EuroPCR2019 21-24 May 2019 Paris, France   This is a highlight on the latest Cardiology stories on our site, sent to [E-mail Address] in our subscription database. Feel free to forward to colleagues; better still, please ask them to subscribe! In order to take the new GDPR regulations into account we have simplified the unsubscription process. Please click here to opt-out email or just reply to this email with any indication to be removed. For updating your subscription preferences please click here © 2019 HealthManagement.org is powered by MindByte Communications Ltd. - 9 Vassili Michaelides - Limassol CY-3026 - Cyprus HealthManagement ISSN 1377-7629 For questions, contributions or comments write to [email protected] or call +357 25 822 133 About us | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | and Disclaimer