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  "id": 5370992,
  "title": "Afib Ablation Falls in New Sham-Controlled Trial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/afib-ablation-falls-in-new-sham-controlled-trial",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-03T16:38:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MedPage Today",
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    "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/esc/122875"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- Some techniques of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) did not hold up under scrutiny in new randomized trials, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress. For one, the fundamental...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}