The average starting salary for cardiologists rose 31.2% from 2022-23 to 2025-26, to $568,000, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare. The “2026 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” report includes data from a representative…
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Boston-based Mass General Brigham’s Heart and Vascular Institute is changing its approach to care, workforce relationships and research to innovate on the model inside of an academic medical center. The institute brings together cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery, all…
The FDA approved the first heart valve designed to expand after surgery as a child grows. Autus Size-Adjustable Valve is a surgically implanted pulmonary heart valve for pediatric patients with congenital pulmonary valve disease, according to an Oct. 1 FDA…
Physicians at the Larry D. Johnson Heart & Vascular Institute at Houston-based Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center are the first to use a newly approved tissue valve for heart valve replacement. The valve, which treats aortic or mitral valve disease, has…
The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has suspended the license of a Texas-based physician indicted in an alleged $89 million cardiovascular testing fraud scheme, KSNT reported Oct. 1. The board issued a 90-day order of immediate suspension Sept. 29…
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The FDA has approved Camzyos (mavacamten) capsules as the first treatment for children with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to improve functional capacity and symptoms. Camzyos is now approved for adults and pediatric patients weighing at least 30 kilograms (approximately 66…
Miami Beach, Fla.-based Mount Sinai Medical Center named Olcay Aksoy, MD, chief of cardiology. As cardiology chief, he will lead efforts to integrate and expand cardiovascular services throughout Southern Florida and grow clinical research programs, according to an Oct. 1…
Nurses are pushing back on UnityPoint Health-Finley’s decision to cut cardiac procedure lab hours, ABC affiliate KCRG reported Sept. 29. As of Sept. 14, the Dubuque, Iowa-based hospital will provide cardiac procedures between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through…
Transplanted hearts may change to match the biological age of the recipient, a new study suggests. The study, posted on the preprint server bioRxiv, is not yet peer reviewed. Researchers from Boston-based Harvard University conducted heart transplants in mice and…
U.S. News and World Report rated 519 hospitals as high performing for heart arrhythmia care. U.S. News evaluated roughly 4,500 hospitals on how well they treated heart arrhythmia patients by analyzing patient survival rates, recovery at home, number of patients…