Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed 148 heart transplants in 2020, the most of any transplant center in the world, according to a Jan. 12 news release.
Author: Erica Cerutti
Women with early breast cancer who received statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, during their chemotherapy had a lower risk of heart failure in the five years after their cancer treatment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American…
Cleveland Clinic named Bradley Marino, MD, as chair of the department of pediatric cardiology Jan. 4.
Pediatric congenital heart disease were more likely to have anxiety, depression or ADHD compared to those without CHD, according to a study published Jan. 4 in Pediatrics, the official medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Kenosha, Wis.-based Froedtert South Hospital partnered with local paramedics to implement "Straight to Cath" — a program that saves crucial time by allowing paramedics to bypass the emergency room and get heart attack patients straight to the cardiac catheterization lab…
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Nearly 1 in 4 heart failure patients hospitalized with COVID-19 died during their hospital stay, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health System appointed Dean Kereiakes, MD, as president of its Heart and Vascular Institute effective Jan. 1.
The FDA greenlighted a new heart transplant method for use in a clinical trial at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital that would significantly expand the amount of eligible donor hearts.
Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine named Joseph Forbess, MD, a nationally recognized pediatric and neonatal surgeon, as surgical director of the Children's Heart Program at the University of Maryland's Children's Hospital Dec. 21.
Vincent Gott, MD, former chief of cardiac surgery at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, died at 93 of heart failure Nov. 20, Johns Hopkins University announced.