TORONTO – "Don't take the escalators, don't eat lunch, don't breath." Those were the instructions shouted to attendees by a session moderator as they filed out of a big hall of the Metro Toronto Convention Center, the session titled "Aerobiology, the Environment and Cardiovascular Health" and launching official activities of the annual scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA; Minneapolis). (Medical Device Daily)

TORONTO – Evidence-based guidelines – a growing medical emphasis, for physicians to guide patient therapy and disease management, and for payers; the byproduct of randomized clinical trials and a growing mass of data; and, more often these days, a repetitive mantra considered so self-evidently useful and valid that they receive little critical debate. (Medical Device Daily)