Medical Digest & Congress Report

Professor Sebastian Giebel shares his insights on the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia highlights from the 2025 EHA Annual Meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:all-highlights-eha-2025

Professor Lydia Scarfò shares her insights on BTKi-B–cell lymphoma 2 inhibitor options in treatment naïve CLL at the 2025 EHA Annual Meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:first-steps-time-limited-btki-bcell-lymphoma-2-inhibitor-options-treatment-naive-cll

Professor Livio Pagano discusses improving patient outcome in secondary acute myeloid leukemia at the 2025 EHA Annual Meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:improving-patient-outcome-secondary-acute-myeloid-leukemia-2025

Professor Nicole Lamanna shares her insights on second-generation BTKi combinations at the 2025 EHA Annual Meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:second-coming-finite-therapy-chronic-lymphocytic-leukemia

Professor Enrique M. Ocio discusses progress on the treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma at the 2025 EHA Annual Meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:unprecedented-progress-treatment-relapsed-and-refractory-multiple-myeloma-2025

Professor Giuseppe Mancia shares his insights on the most inportant highlights of ESH 2025 meeting. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:honorary-presidents-take-highlights-esh-2025-meeting

Professor Michel Burnier participated in a session of the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular protection in Milan, Italy which addressed key factors that prevent hypertensive patients from achieving their blood pressure target ranges. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:build-strong-therapeutic-alliance-your-patient-little-help-your-friends

Professor George S. Stergiou co-chaired a session at the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular protection in Milan, Italy focused on the use of dual and triple fixed combinations in high-risk hypertensive patients and also discussed the recommendation to choose different dual combinations according to various comorbidities. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/in...

Professor Rosa de Pinho co-chaired a session at the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular protection in Milan, Italy focused on factors that may prevent hypertensive patients from achieving their blood pressure target ranges. Medical inertia was the most in focus among these factors. What causes medical inertia, what don’t practicing physicians do properly? What do we “miss” so...

Professor Stefano Taddei shares his insights on resistant hypertension, that has been thoroughly discussed at many sessions of the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular protection in Milan, Italy. Why is this topic so important? What is the modern definition of resistant hypertension, what are the diagnostic criteria according to the new guidelines? Video: https://medicaldigest....

Mark Jit shares his insights on the combination vaccines on the future of vaccination at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:combining-vaccines-future-vaccination-report-wvcdc-2025

Miranda Baxa shares her insights on the burden of long Covid at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Important documents: The future of covid Addressing the burden of long Covid: reaching a consensus Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:addressing-burden-long-covid-reaching-global-consensus

Bill Hausdorff shares his insights on the benefits and challenges of combining vaccines at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:benefits-and-challenges-combining-vaccines

Rajinder Suri shares his insights on which vaccination programs with pandemic potential have worked and what else can be done to repurpose COVID facilities and incorporate novel platforms at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:which-vaccination-programs-pandemic-potential-have-worked-and-what-else-can-be-done-repurpose-covid-fa...

Olivera Finn shares her insights on clinical updates for a novel preventative breast cancer vaccine at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:clinical-updates-novel-preventative-breast-cancer-vaccine

William Decker shares his insights on cell-based therapeutic vaccination as adjuvant therapy for MGMT unmethylated glioblastoma at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:cell-based-therapeutic-vaccination-adjuvant-therapy-mgmt-unmethylated-glioblastoma

Amy Aspelund shares her insights on intranasal universal influenza vaccines at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2025. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:intranasal-universal-influenza-vaccine-promising-data-blocking-virus-transmission

Hadley Wilson, ACC Immediate Past President shares his insights on the key announcements and findings at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:highlights-acc25

Benjamin H. Freed co-chaired an interesting session on Chronic Coronary Disease Management in 2025 at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:chronic-coronary-disease-management-2025-whats-new-guidelines

John K. Triedman shares his insights on the joint symposium of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology, that will highlight recent guidelines and consensus documents in the arrhythmia field and updates since their publication. It's covering atrial fibrillation, conduction system pacing, management of arrhythmias in pregnancy, and management of athletes with arrhythmias....

Richard Kovacs shares his insights on key announcements and findings at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:chief-medical-officers-take-acc25

Martha Gulati shares her insights on lipoprotein(a) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. She discussed studies such as HORIZON and the ALPACA trial. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:why-lipoprotein-matters-clinical-decisions-and-patient-risk

Paul K. Whelton shares his insights on optimizing hypertension management at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:discussion-optimizing-hypertension-management-we-need-new-treatment-and-interventions

Christina Magnussen on individual-level data collected across 126 worldwide cohorts show controlling modifiable cardiovascular risk factors can potentially benefit life-years for freedom from CVD and death from any cause at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:lifetime-benefit-control-modifiable-risk-factors

Tor Biering-Sørensen presented the analysis of the primary and secondary endpoint results of the DECODE-CKD at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. Video: https://medicaldigest.org/scientific-contents/interview:dapagliflozin-reduced-lvmi-patients-ckd-decode-ckd