Nearly 8 in 10 young adults in a new study had cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, with more advanced stages linked to early signs of arterial injury. Researchers analyzed health data from 1,283 participants, according to an Aug. 20 American Heart Association news…
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Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary’s Health Care System’s new $34.6 million heart center will break ground Aug. 21, WUGA reported. The St. Mary’s Center for Heart, Vascular and Neurosciences is a 15,000-square-foot facility that will focus on treatment of stroke, heart…
Mississippi had the highest hypertension death rate at 19.3 while Wyoming had the lowest at 4.1, the CDC found. The CDC calculated mortality rates from hypertension in every state. Mortality rate is the number of deaths per 100,000 total population…
Want to bring more innovation to your heart center or cardiovascular department? Start by supporting and rewarding staff who work to bring innovation in, Mark Ricciardi, MD, section chief for interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at Warrenville, Ill.-based Endeavor…
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Jeffrey Marshall, MD, chief of cardiology at the Northside Hospital Heart Institute in Atlanta, is retiring. Dr. Marshall, a nationally recognized interventional cardiologist, has helped grow the hospital’s cardiovascular program and helped advance treatment for complex coronary artery disease, acute…
Cardiology is booming with innovation, but there’s one aspect that remains overlooked: who qualifies for minimally invasive therapies. Cardiology should be “more aggressive about broadening who we’re targeting to care for,” Mark Ricciardi, MD, section chief for interventional cardiology and…
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (Ark.), part of Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy, has expanded services through the opening of two specialty clinics: Mercy Oncology & Hematology – Fort Smith Tower West and Mercy Clinic Cardiology – Tower West. The clinic openings align…
Statesboro-based East Georgia Regional Medical Center is renovating and expanding its cardiac catheterization labs with more than $11 million, according to a hospital news release published on Grice Connect Aug. 16. The upgrades will fully renovate and expand the hospital’s…
U.S. News & World Report rated 246 hospitals as high performing for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals overall and rated about 800 on TAVR using data such as survival, prevention of stroke and number of patients treated. Hospitals…