The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation is hosting a medical device pitch competition with MedTech Innovator to address the lack of pediatric heart devices, the groups announced March 23.
Author: Erica Cerutti
Stereotactic body radiation therapy was successfully used to treat a man with ventricular tachycardia, a heart rhythm disorder, for the first time in Florida by specialists at Baptist Health's Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute and Miami Cancer Institute, the health…
Harrisonburg, Va.-based Sentara RMH Medical Center opened a heart failure clinic that provides care to recently discharged patients with cardiac issues, the hospital said March 24.
The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association updated heart failure data standards and definitions in a March 23 report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The Texas Heart Institute in Houston announced March 16 that Joseph Rogers, MD, will become president and CEO effective May 17.
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Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health Network partnered with The Christ Hospital Health Network to open the region's first heart failure clinic.
Neptune, N.J.-based Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Miami-based Mercy Hospital are among several hospitals that have recently launched new heart centers or clinics since Feb. 12.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued draft recommendations March 16 to lower the starting age for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes screening from age 40 to 35.
Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health opened a cardiovascular screening clinic, called Heart Check, March 15.
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF Saint Francis Medical Medical Center, part of OSF HealthCare, has restored its heart transplant program after being suspended due to low patient volume in 2007, the health system announced March 15.