A recent Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine study found men develop cardiovascular disease earlier than previously thought. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, used data from the “Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study,” which followed…
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Field Medical, a medtech company improving care for complex cardiac arrhythmias, has appointed Mark Turco, MD, as CEO. Dr. Turco is an interventional cardiologist with more than three decades of leadership experience, including roles at venture-backed cardiovascular startups and medical…
Susan Nicolson, MD, an attending anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, received the 2026 Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society Lifetime Achievement Award on March 12. The award recognized Dr. Nicolson for a career that “defined standards of care […] and shaped…
Phoenix-based Tri-City Cardiology and three physicians have agreed to pay $4.75 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary vein ablations, the Justice Department said in a March 12 news release. The settlement resolves…
Arizona lawmakers are considering three bills that would require hospitals to provide additional protections against long-term radiation exposure risk for clinicians, AZMirror reported March 12. The legislation comes in reaction to increased cancer rates among cardiovascular interventionalists. Studies show these…
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Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health is founding an advanced heart failure and transplant program. The program builds on the success of the NCH Rooney Heart Institute, which has been recognized as one of the nation’s leading cardiac care programs, according to…
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…
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…