The Bob Harrington Show

Robert A. Harrington interviews LaShyra Nolen, a medical student and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association's Racial Justice in Medicine Award. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull's-eye https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1915891 This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, 'How Are You Today?' https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-medical-student-wants-white-professors-to-know_n_5ed91238c5b6e0feefc26315 Statue of Controversial Surgeon to Be Moved From Central Park https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/891413 A Rift Over Carl Linnaeus Shows We Shouldn't Idolise Scientists https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/carl-linnaeus-entomological-society-of-america-great-man-theory-progress/ Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel A. Cartwright, Medicine, and Race in the Antebellum South https://muse.jhu.edu/article/699875 What Le

Bob Harrington interviews fellow cardiologist Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, vice chair of the recent ACC/AHA revascularization guidelines, who takes us inside the process. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a transcript or to comment, visit https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington 2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Coronary Artery Revascularization https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.09.006 Evidence Based Medicine: What It Is and What It Isn't https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71 2016 ACC/AHA Guideline Focused Update on Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000404 Ticagrelor With or Without Aspirin in High-Risk Patients After PCI https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1908419 Surgical Groups Push Back Against New Revascularization Guidelines https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/966153 Outcomes in the ISCHEMIA Trial Based on Coronary Artery Disease and Ischemia Severity https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONA

Robert Harrington, MD, interviews Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, about his recent paper in Nature Medicine focused on the long-term cardiovascular effects of COVID-19. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a transcript or to comment, visit https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Robert A. Harrington, MD, Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, Chief of Research and Development, VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, Missouri COVID-19 and Long-term Health Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes of COVID-19 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01689-3 High-Dimensional Characterization of Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03553-9 Risks of Mental Health Outcomes in People With COVID-19: Cohort Study https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-068993 Kidney Outcomes in Long COVID https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2021060734 I'm 26. Coronavir

Trials on lowering salt consumption and treating hypertension in the community impressed Drs Harrington and Gibson in this discussion of the best public health research of 2021. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington CV Public Health Trials Interim effects of salt substitution on urinary electrolytes and blood pressure in the China Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2019.12.020 A Cluster Randomized Trial of a Village Doctor-Led Intervention on Blood Pressure Control: China Rural Hypertension Control Project https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_ga=2.141042993.2042594723.1635046736-1021258137.1633710264#!/9349/presentation/18155 A Remotely Delivered Hypertension and Lipid Program in 10,000 Patients Across a Diverse Health Care Network https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_ga=2.141042993.2042594723.1635046736-1021258137.1633710264#!/9349/presentation/18153 COVID-19

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/963475 Drs Harrington and Gibson provide their annual roundup of what they consider the key cardiovascular trials of 2021. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a transcript or to comment, visit https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Antiplatelet Therapy Comparative Effectiveness of Aspirin Dosing in Cardiovascular Disease https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2102137 Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI in Patients at High Bleeding Risk https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2108749 Effect of 1-Month Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Followed by Clopidogrel vs 12-Month Dual Antiplatelet Therapy on Cardiovascular and Bleeding Events in Patients Receiving PCI https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.8145 Aspirin Versus Clopidogrel for Chronic Maintenance Monotherapy After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (HOST-EXAM): An Investigator-Ini

Instead of trying therapies and hoping for the best, the RECOVERY trial investigators designed randomized trials to test which therapeutics were truly effective for COVID-19. Dr Harrington interviews lead investigator Martin Landray, MB ChB, PhD. To read a transcript or to comment: https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington The Bob Harrington Show is intended for healthcare professionals. RECOVERY Trial Website and Some Publications Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy https://www.recoverytrial.net/ Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2021436 Lopinavir–ritonavir in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32013-4 Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2007764 Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2021436 Effect of Hydr

A genomics giant with a family history of heart disease and an Olympic athlete accused of cheating are just two of the medical mysteries unraveled by DNA analysis. Bob Harrington interviews Euan Ashley, author of The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250234995), who was inspired to write the book after watching an interview between "fellow nerds" Atul Gawande and Barack Obama. To read a transcript or to comment https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington The Book The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250234995 The People Stephen Quake Clinical assessment incorporating a personal genome https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60452-7 Leilani Graham https://www.leilanirgraham.com/ Eero Mäntyranta https://theolympians.co/2018/01/22/eero-mantyranta-the-ruddy-cheeks-and-the-genetic-advantange-of-a-cross-country-skiing-legend-from-finland/ You may also like: Medscape

What is the incidence of post-COVID myocarditis and when is it safe to return to play? Bob Harrington and Manesh Patel discuss our evolving understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 effects the hearts of athletes and weekend warriors. To read a transcript or to comment https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Early Studies Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Findings in Competitive Athletes Recovering From COVID-19 Infection https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.4916 Pooled autopsy https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/944496 Pathological Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 as a Cause of Myocarditis: JACC Review Topic of the Week https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.031 Lake Louise Criteria https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30545455/ Recognition and Initial Management of Fulminant Myocarditis A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association https:/

Bob Harrington and Mike Gibson continue their review of 2020, discussing the 'riddle wrapped in an enigma' that was the COVID-19 pandemic.

The annual tradition continues as did cardiology research despite a pandemic. Trials on fish oils, statins, SGLT2 inhibitors, and antiplatelets are among the selections of Drs Harrington and Gibson.

Three editors of cardiology journals -- Drs Harrington, Yancy, and Nallamothu -- discuss the challenges of maintaining quality during the COVID-19 surge in submissions.

Hematologist Mary Cushman discusses arterial and venous thrombosis issues with SARS-CoV-2 and the role of anticoagulation.

Bob Harrington asks Michelle Albert why mortality rates are so high in minority communities, and whether COVID-19 will lead to meaningful changes in health and social inequities.

'They fancy themselves free. And no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences,' wrote Camus in 'The Plague', which Abraham Verghese sees as relevant to our collective experience of COVID-19.

Cardiologist Lisa Rosenbaum seeks meaning in her work as a physician and correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, a quest first started by her grandfather who was also a physician-writer.

Bob Harrington and Mike Gibson continue their review of 2019 with the 'hottest trial of the year' and what to expect in healthcare in 2020.

'It's like we're in the '90s again.' Drs Gibson and Harrington review top cardiology trials on revascularization, lipid management, and antithrombotics in part 1 of their annual wrap-up.

A family history of sudden death was the impetus for author Sandeep Juahar's fascination with the heart, which led to a career in cardiology and his latest book Heart: A History.

Fewer black men are going into medicine today than in 1978. Drs Harrington and Capers discuss how to increase diversity in medicine and why it's important for caregivers to reflect the population they treat.

Optimal medical therapy and recent advances show that heart failure is preventable and not obligatory, Clyde Yancy tells Bob Harrington.