Cardiology

Here are four partnerships and affiliations centered on cardiac and cardiovascular care announced recently.

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed 148 heart transplants in 2020, the most of any transplant center in the world, according to a Jan. 12 news release. 

Thomas Costantino, MD, director of cardiology at Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital's campuses in Ocean Breeze and Prince's Bay, died Dec. 20 at age 80 after a long illness, reports the Staten Island Advance.

The COVID-19 pandemic is overshadowing an equally deadly health threat for much of rural America, a  rise of chronic heart and lung disease, three healthcare leaders wrote in a Jan. 9 op-ed for The Washington Post.

The American Heart Association is offering new learning modules to help researchers communicate their findings in a way the general public can better understand.

Below are four cardiologists who recently joined new practices.

Women with early breast cancer who received statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, during their chemotherapy had a lower risk of heart failure in the five years after their cancer treatment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American…

Over the past several years, CMS has continually expanded the list of services approved for delivery in an outpatient setting or office-based lab (OBL).

U.S. News & World Report released its 2021 Best Diets ranking Jan. 4, which includes the top diets for heart health.

Cleveland Clinic named Bradley Marino, MD, as chair of the department of pediatric cardiology Jan. 4.