Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler

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VIDEO: Rivaroxaban gives safer protection to atrial fib patients post PCI

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 15, 2016

NEW ORLEANS – The puzzle of how to safely prevent thrombotic events in patients with atrial fibrillation who receive a coronary stent now has...

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Hypotension ‘dose’ drives mortality in traumatic brain injury

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 13, 2016

The duration and severity of hypotension a traumatic brain injury patient has during transport to an emergency department has a significant, linear...

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Absorb’s problems will revise coronary scaffold standards

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 12, 2016

Will the failure of Absorb to show benefits after 3 years in the ABSORB II trial dampen enthusiasm for the concept of a bioresorbable coronary scaf...

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VIDEO: PCI outcomes lag in women, minorities

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 12, 2016

Women and minority-group patients have significantly worse outcomes, compared with white men, following percutaneous coronary intervention

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Diabetes drugs with cardiovascular benefits broaden cardiology’s turf

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 9, 2016

Some cardiologists are acting like diabetologists now that they have antidiabetic drugs that can reduce CVD events in patients with type 2 diabetes...

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Scoring formula consolidates stroke, bleeding risk in atrial fib patients

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 8, 2016

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Heart failure targets African Americans

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 2, 2016

ORLANDO – The disparity in U.S. heart failure incidence continued undiminished during 2002-2013, with African Americans maintaining a steady ...

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VIDEO: Two PCI vs. CABG trials produce conflicting results

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: November 1, 2016

Two large, randomized comparisons of coronary stenting and bypass surgery for patients with less complex left main CAD had sharply different findin...

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Selected liver-transplant patients thrive off immunosuppression

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: October 31, 2016

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Causes of recurrent pediatric pancreatitis start to emerge

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: October 31, 2016

MONTREAL – Once children have a first bout of acute pancreatitis, a second, separate episode of acute pancreatitis most often occurs in patients wi...

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VIDEO: Bioresorbable Absorb unexpectedly humbled by metallic DES

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: October 31, 2016

WASHINGTON – The bioabsorbable vascular scaffold bubble suddenly burst with the first 3-year follow-up data from a randomized trial that unex...

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Adaptive servo ventilation cuts atrial fib burden

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: October 30, 2016

Adaptive servo ventilation appeared to substantially reduce atrial fibrillation burden in patients with heart failure and sleep apnea in a prelimin...

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Advanced heart failure symptoms linked to mortality

Author:: Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD

Publish date: October 28, 2016

Hospitalized advanced heart failure patients with severe symptoms at the time of hospital discharge had a substantially increased risk of death ove...