Cardiology

A new joint guideline from three leading cardiology organizations focuses on preventing heart failure in patients showing early signs of "pre-heart failure" and updating treatment strategies for symptomatic heart failure patients.

A new joint guideline from three leading cardiology organizations focuses on preventing heart failure in patients showing early signs of "pre-heart failure" and updating treatment strategies for symptomatic heart failure patients.

Five cardiologists who recently joined new practices or stepped into new roles: 

Two recent cardiology trials from Cleveland Clinic have focused on a "gene silencing" therapy and an experimental drug used to treat heart disease that thickens a heart muscle.

Researchers from the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota received two grants totaling over $6.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to study pediatric cardiovascular health, the university said March 31. 

Researchers from the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota received two grants totaling over $6.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to study pediatric cardiovascular health, the university said March 31. 

Older diabetes patients had a higher risk for severe influenza outcomes, including hospitalizations, a study recently published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases found. 

Researchers at Smidt Heart Institute at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai have developed an algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable and untreatable forms of sudden cardiac arrest, the medical center said March 30. 

Lusana Ahsan, MD, has joined a practice of St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates, the Albany, N.Y.-based healthcare network said March 28. 

The number of prediabetic children has nearly doubled in the last two decades, a study published March 28 in JAMA Pediatrics found.