Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has partnered with Bayer to advance therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. The collaboration will last five years through an Investigational New Drug application, according to a Jan. 20 news release…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
As the obesity rate in the U.S. reaches “epidemic proportions,” the rate of hypertension-related cardiovascular death has nearly doubled, according to the American College of Cardiology’s inaugural “Cardiovascular Statistics 2026” report published Jan. 12. Here are 10 things to know…
Clarkson Heart Center, an independently owned and operated cardiology practice, has joined Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine. More than 20 Clarkson Heart Center team members and physicians will be onboarded as Nebraska Medicine employees, according to a Jan. 13 news release from…
Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health has expanded cardiology services through the opening of an ambulatory center and 27-bed hospital unit dedicated to heart failure care. The Advanced Heart Failure Center, located within HealthPark Medical Center’s Lee Health Heart Institute, and…
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…
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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 one of the first double lung-liver transplants in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing…
Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine have appointed Dawood Darbar, MD, as vice president of the system’s cardiovascular service line and co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute. Dr. Darbar was also named chair of…
A cardiology team at Manhasset, N.Y.-based North Shore University Hospital’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital became the first in the world to implant the industry’s smallest defibrillation lead. The procedure was led by Laurence Epstein, MD, system director of electrophysiology…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tapped Larry Markham, MD, to serve as director of its division of pediatric cardiology and co-director of the Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital beginning April 1. Dr. Markham will…