In Global News: Robotically Coaxing Esophageal Growth, Sauna for Your Health, and Canada’s First Inuk Cardiac Surgeon [1]
Patient Care
Portugal’s first Eurovision winner, Salvador Sobral, has made a good recovery after undergoing a heart transplant [3] in December.
Canada’s first Inuk cardiac surgeon talks about choosing to become a surgeon [4] and the pride she takes in serving her patients.
Surgeons perform the first pneumonectomy at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi [5], UAE, for a patient with respiratory failure secondary to a multi-drug resistant infection.
Drugs and Devices
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pushed back approval of AndexXa [6], which is designed to reverse the anticoagulant effect of Factor Xa inhibitors, as they review additional data.
Research, Trials, and Funding
An international group of researchers have developed a robot that pulls on the esophagus to induce cell growth [7] in awake pigs, a technology that could be applied to large-gap esophageal atresia [8] in infants.
Two studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine come to slightly different conclusions on the benefits of risk-based screening for lung cancer outcomes [9].
Researchers in Finland look at how 30 minutes in a sauna [10] affects one’s cardiovascular function.
Veterinary researchers in Ontario, Canada, found that atrial fibrillation appears to be a heritable trait [11] in Standardbred racehorses.