A team at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute successfully employed a robotic device to place a patient’s central line. Vanderbilt Health is one of five centers selected by the FDA to study the Obvius Robotics device for central…
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The American College of Cardiology has awarded 321 hospitals for delivering guideline-based, high-quality heart attack care. The recipients of the Chest Pain-MI Registry Performance Achievement Award engage in a quality improvement process, use data to drive improvements and positively impact…
M Health Fairview has more than doubled the size of its cardiology team at its Maple Grove, Minn., site to expand access to heart care. The expanded team at M Health Fairview Clinics & Surgery Center-Maple Grove grew from four…
From medical directors to chief of cardiology, here are 10 health systems seeking cardiology leaders: 1. Ascension St. Thomas Heart, based in Nashville, Tenn., is seeking a co-director for its cardiovascular service line. 2. Methodist Children’s Hospital, based in New…
Amir Lerman, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Mayo Clinic and a pioneer in cardiovascular medicine, died on Feb. 23 at age 69. Dr. Lerman, cardiovascular physician-scientist, joined the Rochester, Minn.-based system in 1987 as a resident and…
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Prescriptions for heart failure medications take two to six times longer to fill if insurance companies require prior authorization, a new study found. The study, published in JACC: Advances, used electronic health records, pharmacy fill and neighborhood-level data from a…
When Gabriel Wallace, MD, medical director of vascular surgery for Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, South Region, joined the system in 2023, he had only one dream: to build a vascular care program. In two years, he realized it. Dr.…
New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University School of Medicine is piloting a clinic that offers mental health services inside its cardiology clinic, Medscape reported March 16. In February 2025, Yale started the Yale Medicine Heart and Vascular Psychology and Wellbeing Clinic.…
Patients with obesity and atrial fibrillation have lower readmission and mortality rates if they start taking GLP-1 drugs after an ablation, a recent study found. The study, published March 16 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, analyzed electronic health records from over…
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…