Author: Erica Cerutti

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger will launch a sports cardiology program in August, according to Martin Matsumura, MD, the health system's chief of cardiology. 

A Michigan woman who had a widowmaker heart attack — a type of heart attack just 12 percent of people survive — said her Apple Watch alerted her to an elevated heart rate, local ABC affiliate WZZM 13 reported July…

A Michigan woman who had a widowmaker heart attack — a type of heart attack just 12 percent of people survive — said her Apple Watch alerted her to an elevated heart rate, local ABC affiliate WZZM 13 reported July…

Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, will take the helm as the American Heart Association's 85th president for its 2021-22 fiscal year, effective July 1. 

A story about the CDC asking clinicians to report all cases of heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination was Becker's most-read cardiology story in June. 

University of MIchigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, part of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, is among the first in the U.S. to perform a catheter-based pulmonary valve replacement on a congenital heart disease patient.

Shifts to outpatient care are one of the greatest challenges cardiology departments at hospitals are navigating today, says Connie Boyd, cardiovascular service line director at Santa Barbara (Calif.) Cottage Hospital.

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare has performed the world's first structural heart procedure using 4D hologram technology, the health system said June 23. 

An observational study involving more than 200,000 participants suggests heart failure patients have an increased risk of later developing any type of cancer, compared to those without the condition, according to findings presented June 28 at the European Society of Cardiology's…

The University of California San Diego has received a $3.25 million donation from philanthropists Steven Strauss and Lise Wilson to establish the city's first cardiomyopathy center.