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This is the second of a three part look at the Heart Team by CHMP Media Fellow Yael Maxwell looking at the Heart yael maxwellTeam in practice: what works, what doesn’t, and what the future may hold. This story originally appeared on TCTMD.com. Read Part 1 here.

 

As  previously reported, the concept of the Heart Team varies widely within the cardiology community. But as all researchers know, the truth is in the data.

 

In January, TCTMD polled its readers through targeted emails and social media to find out what they think of the Heart Team and how it works in their hospitals. On top of demographic information, the survey asked questions about the usefulness and value of the Heart Team, who benefits from it most, and what barriers prevent its optimal function.

 

Of note, respondents were also queried about how they include patients in the Heart Team process and about their satisfaction with how their administration supports teamwork.

 

Overall, 254 cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, nurses, coordinators, and other players responded. The anonymity of the survey gave those who responded the chance to be candid and honest. Their thoughts may surprise you.

 

We have compiled the results into an infographic—the first of its kind on TCTMD.  To view it, please click the image below. You can also download a PDF.

 

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Radio/Podcast

Every day, children all across the United States are bought and sold for sex. They are not old enough to consent to sex – and despite the existence of federal law that defines them as victims of human trafficking, each year more than 1,000 American children are arrested for prostitution in the U.S.

Screen Shot 2016-04-14 at 9.47.04 AMThe 2016 Associated Press Style Book is recommending that writers avoid using the word “prostitute” when a child is involved, as in “child prostitute,” “teenage prostitute,” because by definition, an underage child cannot consent to sex, they are victims of rape.

Language matters.

Now we need to address the misuse of the word rescue when reporting on human trafficking. Barbara Glickstein interviews Becky Owens Bullard,Project Director of the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance, about the misuse of the word rescue when speaking about trafficking.

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Every day, children all across the United

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that African-American women are twice as likely to get cervical cancer from HPV, the Human Papilloma Virus, than white women. Data also reports that Black women have the highest mortality rate of any racial group in America. Gardasil® is the vaccine known most in the US for preventing cervical cancer caused by HPV, but it only prevents against some types of cancer-causing HPV and not the types that are most prevalent (or “that will protect against cervical cancer”) in the Black community.

Health Reporter Helina Selemon talked to Diane Harper, MD, the doctor behind the clinical trials of to learn more about HPV and about Cervarix®, the vaccine that women, especially Black women, need to know about.

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