PHILADELPHIA — Coronary artery calcium scoring is a helpful tool in patients aged 40 years or older whom a decision to start therapy for primary CVD prevention is not obvious, a speaker said at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference. Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA, endowed chair of preventive cardiology, professor of medicine and director of cardiac CT at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, said
A surgeon at a Los Angeles County public hospital performed an unneeded surgery on a Black patient after receiving payments from a medical device maker. The county allows its doctors to recruit patients for industry trials, but does little to monitor the research.