cardiology

Low-dose digoxin failed its primary endpoint in 1,001 Dutch heart-failure patients, but a JAMA meta-analysis of DECISION, DIGIT-HF and the 1997 DIG trial published the same day finds digitalis cuts the combined risk of cardiovascular death or first worsening event by 15 percent.

The TWIN-VT trial used personalized computational heart models to guide ventricular tachycardia ablation, with all 10 patients remaining arrhythmia-free after more than a year.

A study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults finds the shingles vaccine dramatically reduces heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in people with existing cardiovascular disease.