In crushing blow to opponents of animal welfare, The Boston Globe endorses YES on Question 3: bostonglobe.com/opinion/editor… #mapoli

In 560 patients hospitalized for syncope, 17% were diagnosed with pulmonary embolism @nejm bit.ly/2ejIAfO

Join Ethan J. Weiss and me on theheartorg | Medscape for: "SPRINT: Why Hasn't The Low BP Goal Been Embraced in Practice" medscape.com/viewarticle/87…

Original Article: Tranexamic Acid in Coronary Artery Surgery nej.md/2dLo9WB #ANES16

Depressing randomised study: seeing reminders of poverty reduces support for equitable redistribution of income scholar.harvard.edu/sands/publicat…

Universal Child FH Screening Proposed cardiobrief.org/2016/10/26/uni…

Original Article: Child–Parent Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening in Primary Care nej.md/2eRW1T7 #cholesterol

Cool new article on child-parent screening for FH at time of immunization (children ~13 months age). Several impressions to follow 1/n x.com/NEJM/status/79…

Screening babies/parents seems to be efficient/effective approach to find small subset of individuals at highest risk for premature MI 2/n

Do very large treatment effects in RCTs make subsequent trials unnecessary? meta-epidemiological study bmj.com/content/355/bm… @BMJ_latest