Heartwire reviews a Februay 24 JAMA report indicating that AMI patients on DAPT who use NSAIDs double their risk of bleeding and secondary cardiovascular events. Read about it in Medscape.

Donna Castellone of New York Presbyterian posted an interesting discussion of emotional stress and inflammatory markers in her column, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” linked here.  

From Lynn Gingras, MT (ASCP), Rush-Copley Medical Center: Our institution is getting several complaints from the cardiologists as to the turnaround time of the heparin-induced platelet antibody (HIPA, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis, HIT, HITT) testing that we currently send out to a reference lab. Is there any value to bringing in the Akers Bioscience Particle ImmunoFiltration Assay (PIFA) […]

Here is some encouraging information about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from the Danish Osteoporosis Prevention Study, published October 9, 2012.