A team at New York City-based NYU Langone successfully implanted the world's smallest pacemaker into a newborn baby suffering from a congenital complete heart block.
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Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has appointed Joseph Bavaria, MD, as executive director of the Bruce & Robbi Toll Heart and Vascular Institute and chair of the department of cardiac surgery at Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College, also in Philadelphia.
On Feb. 14, Northwestern Health's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary.
The utilization of virtual reality was found to decrease preoperative anxiety in older patients undergoing open-heart surgery, according to a study published Jan. 4 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst has opened a Women's Heart Health Institute to address gender disparities and care gaps found in women's cardiovascular healthcare.
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Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital has partnered with medical device company Compremium AG to help develop new technologies designed for pediatric patients. The partnership will first focus on noninvasive monitoring of central venous pressure for congenital heart disease patients.
Coronary artery bypass grafts are the most lucrative cardiology procedures for hospitals nationwide, according to research from Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics that was published Dec. 3 in the American Heart Journal.
Technology company Merative's Merge Cardio was named the 2025 Best in KLAS winner for cardiology and the 2025 Best in KLAS winner for hemodynamics among vendors offering health information technology solutions, according to a Feb. 12 report from KLAS Research.
Healthcare improvement company Premier has published its list of the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the U.S.
In 2024, Boston-based Tufts Medical Center performed 70 adult heart transplants, breaking its 2023 record by nine and setting the New England region record for the second year in a row.