This Week in Medicine – Clinical Trial Results

Dr. Roxana Mehran and Dr. C. Michael Gibson discuss: Unmet Needs in Coronary Atherosclerosis: A Discussion of Clinical Trial Designs for Evaluation of Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Patients

January 22, 2026

Sponsored by Cleerly, Women as One and International Atherosclerosis Society

Dr. Karim Al-Azizi and Dr. C. Michael Gibson discuss: Caveat Emptor: Advantages and Disadvantages of Current Generation Tools for Evaluation of Coronary Atherosclerosis

January 8, 2026

Sponsored by Cleerly, Women as One and International Atherosclerosis Society

von Willebrand factor molecules cross link and form a net around a blood clot holding it together. Drs. Shahid Nimjee and Gibson discuss a new vWf inhibitor that breaks apart this net & opening closed arteries but leaving a patch of fibrin strands across the site of plaque rupture which would have been dissolved by fibrinolytics potentially causing bleeding.

December 4, 2024

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This Week in Medicine®: Dr. Kausik Ray and Dr. C. Michael Gibson Discuss: Review of the Year in Prevention and Lipids

December 27, 2022

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This Week in Medicine®: Women are under-enrolled in clinical trials. Dr. Martha Gulati and I discuss how to increase participation of women in clinical trials.

December 20, 2022

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