The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded contracts to six teams to build the first FDA-authorized agentic AI system for cardiovascular care. ARPA-H announced the selections Sept. 9 under its Agentic AI-EnableD CardioVascular CAre TransfOrmation, or ADVOCATE, program.…
Cardiology
The American Medical Association released its 2027 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set Sept. 9, an update that adds 299 codes and continues to build out billing for clinical AI. The set takes effect Jan. 1 and carries 453 total…
On Aug. 31, Jeff Marshall, MD, retired as chief of cardiology at Atlanta-based Northside Hospital Heart Institute. Dr. Marshall, a nationally recognized interventional cardiologist, has spent decades building cardiovascular programs across Georgia. He has also served as governor of the…
On Sept. 4, Novartis announced that its experimental drug to prevent heart attack, strokes and cardiovascular death, pelacarsen, had failed. “Lp(a)HORIZON was a pioneering cardiovascular outcomes trial designed to answer one of the most important unanswered questions in cardiovascular medicine…
U.S. News and World Report rated 652 hospitals high performing for congestive heart failure care. U.S. News evaluated roughly 4,500 hospitals on how well they treated heart failure patients by analyzing patient survival rates, recovery at home, number of patients…
Advertisement
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health’s CPMC Kanbar Cardiac Care Center in San Francisco has earned The Joint Commission’s 29th Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification. The achievement marks the third Sutter hospital to earn the certification, joining Sutter Medical Center Sacramento and the…
Women make up nearly half of participants in major structural heart disease trials, but they remain largely absent from the committees shaping how those studies are run. Women held just 7% of steering committee seats across high-impact structural heart disease…
A team from Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital was first in the U.S. to implant a pediatric heart valve as part of a continued access study. A six-year-old child received the device — Edwards Lifesciences’…
Active U.S. drug shortages increased to 227 in the second quarter of 2026, marking the third consecutive quarterly increase, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Nearly half of all new shortages this year involve medications made by a…
Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health launched a pediatric cardiology fellowship. The three-year program will train fellows in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart disease, and includes training in cardiac imaging, catheterization, critical care, electrophysiology and cardiac surgery,…