Englewood (N.J.) Hospital is expanding its stroke care with a new device and two leadership appointments. The hospital has added Siemens’ biplane imaging system, which allows intervention in complex stroke and neurovascular cases, according to a March 12 system news…
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In 2025, the American Board of Medical Specialties denied a proposal to establish an independent American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine. In a viewpoint published March 11 in JAMA Cardiology, physicians from Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center and the University of Washington…
Companies paid nearly $60 million to over 46,000 physicians for AI-enabled devices between 2017 to 2023, a recent Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania study found. Published in Health Affairs Scholar, the study found that cardiologists receive the most payments for AI…
Fewer children waiting for a heart transplant are dying, but it is due to medical care improvements rather than changes to organ allocation, a recent study led by researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine study found. The study, published in the…
The updated 2025 American Heart Association guidelines for hypertension allowed 73% of patients to meet treatment-eligibility criteria, compared to 57% under the 2017 guidelines, a study found. The new guidelines incorporate AHA’s Prevent risk equations and recommended a lower 10-year…
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Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has opened a heart and vascular clinic in Bluffton, S.C. Novant Health Heart & Vascular is led by Christopher Wixon, MD, a vascular surgery specialist, according to a March 10 news release from the health system. …
MUSC Health Florence (S.C.) Medical Center is the first hospital in the state to implement Abbott’s i-STAT 1 instrument with the high-sensitivity troponin I cartridge to accelerate heart attack detection. The test measures low levels of cardiac troponin I —…
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released updated guidelines for managing congenital heart disease in adults. The revised guidelines highlight four priorities: access to specialized care, mental health, physical activity and pregnancy, according to a Dec.…
More than two dozen lawsuits allege 25 patients were infected with a potentially deadly bacteria while undergoing open-heart surgery at Kansas City-based University of Kansas Hospital, The Kansas City Star reported March 10. The lawsuits center around Mycobacterium chimaera, a…
New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is partnering with HeartBeam, a medical technology company, to develop and validate a new AI-electrocardiogram algorithm. HeartBeam’s flagship product is its 12-lead ECG home monitoring system, which includes synthesis software…