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Brainbridge, Ga.-based Memorial Hospital and Manor has opened a cardiac and pulmonary rehab center, The Post-Searchlight reported Feb. 26. The center began offering pulmonary services at the end of 2025 and will open its cardiac services in March. It will…

District of Columbia-based Children’s National Hospital is opening a research institute within its Heart and Lung Center thanks to philanthropic contributions of over $12 million. The Heart Research Institute will focus its investigational efforts on earlier detection, better treatment and…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals had a problem. Its structural heart program was so successful that it was becoming congested, making it difficult to get patients the procedures they needed. It’s a common predicament among heart programs that provide complex procedures at…

Orlando-based AdventHealth Transplant Institute has successfully completed two new transplant procedures. The institute’s surgeons completed its first living donor liver transplant as part of a newly established program, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. This first procedure involved…

Clinicians at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist became the first to use a combined pump and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) strategy to stabilize the heart of a patient early in pregnancy. The 35-year-old patient was traveling abroad on…

Six in 10 women are projected to have at least one type of cardiovascular disease by 2050, a new American Heart Association report found. The “Forecasting the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050 in…

Cincinnati Children’s and Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s are partnering to expand access to pediatric heart care. The partnership will expand access to pediatric cardiology, congenital heart care and complex pediatric heart surgery in the Pacific Northwest, according to…