Becker's Cardiology

Rates of hypertension-related cardiovascular deaths have nearly doubled in the past 20 years, according to the inaugural “Cardiovascular Statistics 2026” report published Jan. 12 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  The report draws on data from national…

JACC: Advances, a medical journal associated with the American College of Cardiology, has selected Dinesh Kalra, MD, as its incoming editor-in-chief. Dr. Kalra currently serves as chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine and professor of medicine at the University…

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale New Haven Health has become the first health system in the state to offer Flyrcado, a new PET imaging agent approved by the FDA to help clinicians detect coronary artery disease.  The tracer enhances the accuracy…

Butler, Pa.-based Independence Health System has partnered with Sharon (Pa.) Regional Health System to expand access to advanced cardiovascular care in the region. The organizations said they will collaborate to expand access to specialty services such as advanced diagnostic testing…

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology named Jamieson Bourque, MD, as its president for 2026.  Dr. Bourque is a multimodality imager at the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia, where he serves as medical director of the nuclear cardiology, stress and echocardiography…

Renata Medical named Evan Zahn, MD, as chief medical officer, effective Jan. 1.  Dr. Zahn will step down from his leadership role at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to join Renata full time. He has more than two decades of…

Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National has tapped Lillian Su, MD, as chief of cardiac critical care. Dr. Su most recently served as medical director of the cardiovascular ICU at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and is the current president of the Pediatric Cardiac…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing the first double lung-liver transplant in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing an anesthesia-free…

San Jose, Calif.-based Santa Clara Valley Healthcare has expanded cardiology services at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, Calif., and Valley Health Center Morgan Hill.  New services at the two locations include electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring and treadmill…

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Atlanta-based Emory School of Medicine have performed the world’s first coronary artery bypass without opening the chest wall.  The new procedure, called ventriculo-coronary transcatheter outward navigation and re-entry,  or VECTOR, was developed…