Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tapped Larry Markham, MD, to serve as director of its division of pediatric cardiology and co-director of the Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital beginning April 1. Dr. Markham will…
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Stony Brook (N.Y.) Heart Institute’s Center for Advanced Lipid Management has become the first center in the world to administer plozasiran for treatment of familial chylomicronemia syndrome. An estimated 6,500 people in the U.S. experience FCS, a condition associated with…
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s heart transplant program boasts a 100% three-year survival rate, making it one of the top-ranked programs in the country. All patients who underwent a heart transplant at the Pennsylvania hospital between January…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has appointed Marcos Nores, MD, as medical director for the Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute at Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital. Dr. Nores previously served as medical director of cardiovascular services…
The stroke program at Santa Monica, Calif.-based Providence Saint John’s Health Center operates as part of a highly integrated, collaborative care model — enabling it to become one of the 13% of hospitals nationwide to earn the American Heart Association’s…
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Abbas Zaidi, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Wilmington-based Nemours Children’s Health Delaware Valley, has developed an AI model that successfully predicted more than three-quarters of care gaps for pediatric congenital heart disease. He presented the research at the American Heart…
The FDA has approved a new class of ablation device — Abbott’s Volt pulsed field ablation system — for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The Volt system delivers high-energy electrical pulses to targeted areas of the heart to disrupt abnormal…
Medtronic has recalled certain DLP Left Heart Vent Catheters due to a defect that could cause serious injury or death. The recall applies to model numbers 12110, 12113 and 12115 with UDI-DIs 20643169880676, 20643169881338 and 20643169880935, according to a Dec.…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received a 10-year, $49.5 million contract to serve as a coordinating center for the Jackson Heart Study. Associate professors of biostatistics and data science, Leann Long, PhD, and Clemontina Davenport, PhD,…
Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth Heart & Vascular Institute has launched a congestive heart failure clinic to improve patient outcomes after discharge and reduce hospital readmissions. The clinic will operate out of Bayhealth Cardiology facilities in Dover and Milford, Del., according to…