The American College of Cardiology has announced that Valentin Fuster will be the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Fuster will succeed the current editor, Anthony DeMaria, beginning in 2014. … Click here to read the full post on Forbes. …
Recent €23 Million Biotech IPO Relied Heavily On Questionable Research
July 8, 2013 by 2 Comments
A successful €23 million initial public offering (IPO) last week was based on highly questionable research, according to a group of UK physicians who have scrutinized the available data. In addition, one of the researchers, a prominent European cardiologist, failed to disclose in a key paper that he helped to start, and held a significant interest…
Blood Sample Mismatch Leads ‘Anguished’ Authors To Retract Three Lipitor Papers
April 16, 2013 by 1 Comment
Three substudies of the influential TNT (Treating to New Targets) trial have been retracted after the sponsor of the trial, Pfizer, discovered that blood samples from the study had been matched to the wrong participants. The main results of TNT, published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine, had a major impact on clinical practice and statin prescription patterns….
A Closer Look At A Case Of Duplicate Publication In JACC
April 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology has published a Notice of Duplication about a review article written by a respected European cardiology researcher who has played a central role in the development of fractional flow reserve (FFR). The brief statement from JACC provides few details and could lead to various interpretations, but a further investigation suggests that the story may…
Observation Units For Heart Failure Could Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations
January 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
Two new papers published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology propose that most heart failure (HF) patients who present to the emergency department (ED) don’t need to be hospitalized and can be safely managed in an observation unit. Currently, the vast majority of HF patients who show up in the ED are hospitalized…. Click…
Meta-Analysis Confirms Benefits Of Statins In Women
February 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Although clinical trials have consistently found a beneficial effects for statins, some critics have questioned the strength of the evidence in women, who are often under-represented in clinical trials. A large new meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides the best evidence yet that the relative reductions in events observed in…
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