The FDA has approved Mounjaro (tirzepatide) to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, including cardiovascular death, nonfatal heart attack or nonfatal stroke, in adults with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for these events. The approval…
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Cardiology has faced a worsening patient access problem over the last several years, with recent data showing that 46% of U.S. counties lack a practicing cardiologist. The shortage is more severe in rural areas, which only average 39.8 physicians per…
The Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is pushing back on the requirement that interventional cardiologists report procedural volume to maintain their certification. “SCAI shares the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Medical Specialties goal of…
Forty-six percent of U.S. counties lack a practicing cardiologist, according to a new report from Cardio Diagnostics Holdings. The report “The State of Rural Hospitals and Cardiovascular Care,” is aimed at improving the quality of cardiovascular care and patient outcomes…
Abiomed flagged a heart pump controller purge cassette problem that has been linked to three patient deaths, according to an Aug. 26 FDA alert. The company is recommending all Automated Impella Controllers be removed from where they are used or…
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Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., but the workforce charged with treating it is aging, growing too slowly to keep pace with the population and leaning more heavily on international medical graduates to fill gaps…
Fifteen heart hospitals received five-star recommendations from patients. Becker’s has compiled a list of the heart hospitals patients would recommend in each state using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. CMS created 10 HCAHPS star…
Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists cardiologist Matthew Chung, MD, performed the Richmond area’s first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedures using the Edwards Evoque system April 29 at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Dr. Chung,…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Sunil Rao, MD, director of the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and Susheel Kodali, MD, director of interventional cardiology and director of the system’s cardiac catheterization laboratory in Manhattan, effective Sept. 1.…
Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System is planning to build a $325 million Heart and Vascular Hospital. The 240,996-square-foot facility will have 104 new beds, including 90 acute-care beds and 14 coronary care unit beds; 24 catheterization lab pre- and post-procedure…