Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s received a $2.5 million donation from the Log a Load for Kids foundation to expand its heart research. The funding will go toward heart research to advance innovations in diagnosis, treatment and care of pediatric patients…
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Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., has upgraded its mobile stroke unit to enhance prehospital stroke care in 20 west suburban Chicago communities. The new unit is equipped with a 32-slice CT scanner, enabling faster, high-resolution brain imaging…
Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Northside Hospital Gwinnett has expanded access to cardiovascular care with its Center for Aortic Surgery, a component of the Northside Hospital Heart Institute, according to a March 26 news release. The center provides diagnosis and treatment for patients…
San Francisco-based Braveheart Bio, a clinical-stage biotech company, has appointed Emil deGoma, MD, as its chief medical officer. Dr. deGoma, a cardiologist, joins Braveheart Bio from Tourmaline Bio, where he served as senior vice president of medical research, according to…
Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University researchers have found a new way to use MRIs to accurately measure myocardial oxygen consumption. The study, published March 25 in Science Translational Medicine, said researchers placed patients into an MRI to take multiple scans over…
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A Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital physician has developed an app that uses artificial intelligence to read electrocardiograms, NBC affiliate WLWT5 reported March 25. The app, called Queen of Hearts, allows clinicians to snap a picture of ECG scans and generate an…
Hospitals and health systems across the nation are adding new cardiovascular services and procedures, and renovating cardiology spaces to meet patient needs. Here are some of the most recent happenings:
At Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods, 63.6% of cardiologists and advanced practice clinicians are women. Nationally, women represent 15.5% of practicing cardiologists, and 1 in 4 cardiology fellows. “We didn’t set out to build a team based on gender,”…
Atlantis-based HCA Florida JFK Hospital named Cristian Baeza, MD, medical director of the Heart and Vascular Institute. In the role, Dr. Baeza, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will help expand access to advanced cardiovascular procedures and strengthen patient outcomes by leading the…
Nine medical societies are calling for updated safety standards to better protect clinicians from radiation exposure and orthopedic strain in cath labs. In cath labs, clinicians use real-time X-ray imaging to guide catheters and other devices through blood vessels as…