New York City-based Northwell Health has named Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD, PhD, system chief of pediatric and congenital heart surgery at three of its hospitals.
Cardiology
These six cardiologists joined new practices, received new appointments or retired in the last four weeks:
Homelessness and poor housing quality can have a negative effect on a person's heart health, the American Heart Association says.
Heart scans for more than half of COVID-19 patients showed abnormalities in functioning, new research shows.
Among older adults, the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs lowered the risk of dying from a cardiovascular event by about 20 percent, a study shows.
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Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J., has partnered with Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University to enhance its graduate fellowship training programs.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in patients with stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, new research by Cleveland Clinic cardiologists shows.
Infants born prematurely experience structural and functional cardiac deterioration through young adulthood, according to a new study.
Daniel C. Lee, MD, was named chief of cardiac surgery at Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel Medical Center.
The new coronavirus affects the human body in myriad ways, and autopsies are a key strategy for researchers and clinicians to pinpoint how the virus affects vital organs, The Washington Post reports.