Should Board Certification Organizations Have to Meet Particular Standards?
Should organizations that bestow board certifications be required to meet particular standards? That was one of the questions debated by members of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates at its meeting this week. The delegates discussed on Tuesday a resolution that would amend AMA policy to say that board certification programs “must first […]
Another Bioresorbable Stent Hits a Snag
A novel bioresorbable stent failed to meet the threshold for noninferiority compared with durable devices in the OPTIMIZE trial, and researchers suggested rising troponin use may have played a role. The Svelte stent, designed to facilitate direct stenting and transradial access in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), did not differ significantly from metallic everolimus-eluting stents with […]