{"id":1394,"date":"2010-01-05T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/tuesday-news-roundup-catheter-ablation-of-vt-triton-timi-38-substudy-benefits-of-exercise-more\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:06","slug":"tuesday-news-roundup-catheter-ablation-of-vt-triton-timi-38-substudy-benefits-of-exercise-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/05\/tuesday-news-roundup-catheter-ablation-of-vt-triton-timi-38-substudy-benefits-of-exercise-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday News Roundup: Catheter Ablation of VT, TRITON-TIMI 38 Substudy, Benefits of Exercise, &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961755-4\/fulltext\">VTACH trial of catheter ablation of VT prior to ICD implantation<\/a> has been published in the <em>Lancet<\/em>. You can find summaries of the trial at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiosource.com\/clinicaltrials\/trial.asp?trialID=1900\"><em>Cardiosource<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<em>T<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theheart.org\/article\/1037619.do\"><em>heHeart.Org<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/Cardiology\/Arrhythmias\/17765\"><em>MedPage Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/121\/1\/71\">T<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/121\/1\/71\">RITON-TIMI 38 cost-effectiveness substudy of prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in ACS <\/a>patients appears in\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/121\/1\/71\">.<\/a> Lilly also issued\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/new-analysis-showed-effientr-cost-effective-compared-with-clopidogrel-for-patients-with-acute-coronary-syndromes-undergoing-pci-80696107.html\">a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two articles in the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> focus on the benefits of exercise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704350304574638331243027174.html\">The Hidden Benefits of Exercise: Even Moderate Physical Activity Can Boost the Immune System and Protect Against Chronic Diseases, by Laura Landro<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704350304574638550059084962.html\">Why You Should Step Up Yourk Workout, by Kevin Helliker<\/a> (Article about Paul Williams, who has ignited controversy because of his strong emphasis on progressively greater health benefits with increased workloads of exercise.).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/180849-pfizer-s-apo-a1-milano-flop-typical-for-big-pharma-deals?source=yahoo\">Seeking Alpha blog discusses Pfizer&#8217;s Apo-A1 Milano flop<\/a>, in which &#8220;Pfizer gets $0.01 billion back from its $1.25 billion investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0VTACH trial of catheter ablation of VT prior to ICD implantation has been published in the Lancet. You can find summaries of the trial at\u00a0Cardiosource,\u00a0TheHeart.Org and\u00a0MedPage Today. The TRITON-TIMI 38 cost-effectiveness substudy of prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in ACS patients appears in\u00a0Circulation. Lilly also issued\u00a0a press release. Two articles in the\u00a0Wall Street Journal focus on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}