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• Online Exclusive | Inaugural Fellow Focuses on Rural Gaps in Congenital Heart Care
  Diagnosing and managing heart disease can be challenging in any setting, but rural communities face distinct barriers, including long travel distances and limited access to specialty care.
• First Medical Contact in ACS: NCDR and the Latest Guidelines
  A recent JACC: Advances Viewpoint examines the challenges associated with implementing revisions to the definition of first medical contact (FMC) introduced in the 2025 ACC/AHA ACS Guideline and its implications for NCDR data collection, specifically for the ACC's Chest Pain – MI Registry.
• SirPAD Redefines Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy in PAD
  Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects >113 million people worldwide and remains a major cause of limb loss, cardiovascular morbidity, and cardiovascular mortality.
• Twenty-Five Years Later: Remembering Sept. 11
  Today marks 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001 – a day forever etched into our collective memory. For those of us who lived through that morning, it can seem both a lifetime ago and only yesterday.
• ACC, STS and SCAI Issue Joint Statement on TAVR National Coverage Determination
  The American College of Cardiology (ACC), Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) released the following joint statement on the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) national coverage determination finalized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).