Cardiology

First lady Jill Biden, EdD, will be visiting Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Dec. 8, KNX News reported.

A Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian study found removing race information from cardiovascular risk calculators did not affect patients' risk scores.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System named Raymond Benza, MD, director of pulmonary hypertension.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System named Raymond Benza, MD, director of pulmonary hypertension.

Middletown, New York-based Garnet Health Medical Center recently launched its open-heart surgery program, Mid Hudson News reported Dec. 4.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has taken part in testing and researching a headset designed to help emergency technicians better identify large vessel occlusion ischemic strokes prior to patients arriving at the hospital.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine researchers found radiation therapy can improve outcomes in patients with ventricular tachycardia.

A recent study found noninvasive ultrasound therapy could be a treatment option for some patients who cannot undergo surgical or transcatheter valve replacement.

Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for "widow-maker" heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.

Continuing regular check-ups for some mothers into the "fourth-trimester" — the three month after giving birth —may help reduce cardiovascular-related deaths, a top indirect cause of maternal deaths, according to the American Heart Association.