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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing? 

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Conavi Medical's new hybrid imaging system simultaneously performs IVUS and OCT.

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Physician burnout rates continue to fall, and the healthy trend comes alongside strong and stable rates of physician job satisfaction.

Heart Rhythm 2025 Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD

Heart Rhythm 2026 in Chicago will include a total of 18 late-breaking clinical trials—and that is just the beginning. The four-day event kicks off April 23.

Gregg Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, presented the results of the long-awaited STEMI Door or Unloading time trial, which takes a different approach to first using a percutaneous heart pump to unload the heart 30 minutes prior to PCI interventions to try and prevent common complications and improve outcomes.

Gregg Stone, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the lessons he and his colleagues learned from the STEMI DTU trial.

orforglipron Foundayo Eli Lilly

The FDA asked, and Eli Lilly and Company delivered. The company now hopes to secure an additional approval for orforglipron/Foundayo that covers the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

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Of all lawsuits filed against patients in 2024 in one U.S. state, physician practices and other non-hospital healthcare entities accounted for 80% of cases. That’s a complete inversion from just six years prior.  

AI in healthcare

In the three or so years since it burst into healthcare, ambient AI scribe technology has run away with the win in the market-uptake race. What has been the return on investment in all those software packages? 

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Jennifer Forbes, 50, allegedly sent a cryptic, threatening letter to a UnitedHealthcare office along with an unknown substance. She has been charged with two counts of terrorism.

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The 940-page document passed the House of Representatives in a 218 to 214 vote, and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk. It contains a 20% cut to federal Medicaid funding, something Trump said he opposes. 

merger acquisition M&A business

With the buyout, global private equity investor Nordic Capital makes a big bet on healthcare AI. Arcadia said the influx of cash will be used to improve its technology and find new sources for data it can use for quality care initiatives. 

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It may not always be necessary to subject heart transplant patients to one biopsy after another. 

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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing?