A federal review of UNC Hospital’s pediatric cardiology unit found “no current deficiencies” in the program just two months after the New York Times published an article suggesting the unit was in “total disarray."

A study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has found patients insured through TRICARE, the U.S. military’s universal health insurance program, saw similar CABG outcomes regardless of their race.

KentuckyOne Health will suspend its heart transplant program at Jewish Hospital effective August 17, leaving 32 patients in Louisville, Ky., without a clear path to a new heart.

A group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine have debunked the idea of a “July effect” in cardiac surgery with a study of nearly half a million U.S.-based heart procedures.

A JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions study published this month suggests machine learning models are more predictive and discriminative than standard methods for identifying patients at the greatest risk of CV mortality and rehospitalization after PCI.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is emerging from the shadows as an important cause of myocardial infarction in younger women. That visibility is leading to fundamental changes in how the condition is diagnosed and treated.

A miniscule fiber-optic sensor could outperform more traditional methods for monitoring blood flow during prolonged and intensive surgical CV procedures, even in the smallest and youngest heart patients, researchers at Flinders University in Australia report.

Sometimes a move in the right direction starts with a good hard look in the rearview mirror, then breaking it off to start anew with greater wisdom.