The all-day summit, a collaboration between CRF and Fogarty Innovation, will focus on advances in healthcare technologies and patient care.

This latest recall was initiated because electrical faults could cause the batteries to stop working, which leads to a risk of serious injury or death.

The USPSTF recommends statin use for high-risk patients between the ages of 40 to 75 to help prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Other patients in that same age group may also benefit, the group noted, but physician input is needed. 

The FDA has had a busy month, overseeing the recall of nearly 88,000 implantable cardiac devices, juggling the continued rise of monkeypox cases in the United States and maintaining an active Breakthrough Devices program. This rundown covers some of the agency's biggest moves during that time. 

Thinking has changed: Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections are a bigger deal than we thought.

In a close collaboration with radiation oncologists, experts trained their model on the CT lung images of 787 patients and tested it on the scans of more than 1,300 patients from external datasets.

The news comes after the Onyx Frontier DES gained CE mark approval. It received FDA approval in May.

The new analysis, published in Circulation, confirmed that vaccine-related myocarditis is incredibly rare.