A clinical alert issued by the professional society that represents interventional cardiologists is urging doctors not to recommend drug-eluting coronary stents [DES] to patients who are unable to take two antithrombotic agents (clopidogrel and aspirin) for at least three to six months, and preferably for one year. The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) is advising invasive and interventional cardiologists to take practical steps for reducing the risk of late stent thrombosis, a rare, but potentially fatal occurrence.
Targeted Drug Combination Reveals New Activity in Brain Tumors
December 28th 2021A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.