Patients With Diabetes Catch a Break

From the annual meeting of the Eastern Vascular Society in Philadelphia:
 It’s not easy for people with diabetes. Among their problems is that just about any other medical condition is worse when it happens against the backdrop of diabetes.
So a report on Sept. 24 that endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR) in patients with diabetes is no [...]

Medical CME Feels its Belt Tighten

from the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy in Hollywood, Fla.
This is the 21st year that the Baptist Cardiac & Vasular Institute of Miami has sponsored this meeting, but after hearing some speakers during the opening morning one starts wondering if it will be the last.
Probably not, but clearly some physicians who organize big-ticket CME meetings feel that their babies are threatened. I can’t vouch [...]

A Witness-to-History Protection Program

from the Internationl Symposium on Endovascular Therapy in Hollywood, Fla.

In an insular meeting room at a medical meeting it’s often easy to ignore what’s going on in the world outside. Not so on January 20. As the late-morning session was starting, the chairman said that in response to popular demand he’d interupt the series of talks at about noon to show an internet stream [...]