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• ACC CardiaCast: SCAI 2025 Think Tank Session Highlights: Radiation Protection and Team Well-Being
  In this episode Drs. Poonam Velagapudi, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, and James Hermiller explore the critical topic of occupational safety in the cath lab.
• Cynthia C. Taub Named US Vice Chair For ACC Asia 2026 and 2027
  The ACC has named Cynthia C. Taub, MBA, MBBS, FACC, as U.S. Vice Chair for ACC Asia 2026 and 2027, after which she will transition to the role of U.S. Chair for ACC Asia 2028 and 2029.
• New ACC Concise Clinical Guidance Report ‘Weighs In’ on Medical Weight Management For Optimizing CV Health
  Given the varying causes of obesity and the wide range of physiological consequences with direct effects on cardiovascular risk factors, the ACC's newest Concise Clinical Guidance (CCG) report provides a framework for clinicians to medically manage obesity...
• Honoring Juneteenth: JACC Highlights Excess CV Mortality Among Black Americans, ACC Health Equity Initiatives
  Excess cardiovascular mortality and years of potential life lost suffered by Black Americans in 2023 have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but this patient population continues to experience "profound and disproportionate cardiovascular mortality"...
• New Insights on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms in Marfan Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos, Loeys-Dietz Syndrome
  Two studies published in JACC on June 16 provide new insights on arterial events associated with heritable thoracic aortic disease (TAD) and the relative risk in patients with pathogenic variants (PVs) as well as the prevalence, characteristics and clinical outcomes of arterial aneurysms (AAs) in Loeys-Dietz Syndrome (LDS).