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Cardiology

Healthgrades published its 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards recipients Oct. 22. Of those, 99 hospitals were recognized for delivering superior clinical outcomes in the care and treatment of stroke.

The annual Global Cardio-Oncology Summit was held in September, bringing together healthcare professionals in the context of cardiovascular disease and cancer. 

Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health's director of cardiovascular disease management services, Stacey Greenway, was appointed president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

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Semaglutide treatment was found to reduce healthcare costs significantly for patients with overweight or obesity and who had either heart failure or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to studies presented Nov. 3-6 at the Obesity Society's annual Obesity Week conference and…

Researchers are starting to learn more about a rare but deadly side effect of immunotherapy cancer treatment, according to a study published Nov. 6 in Nature. 

Breast arterial calcifications are benign calcium buildups that in mammograms look like white parallel lines. Measuring these calcifications may improve cardiovascular risk in women, according to a study published Sept. 27 in JACC: Advances.

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