Hackensack University Medical Center is the first practice in the U.S. to successfully perform heart surgeries using Abiomed’s Impella 5.5 LVAD.

Facebook introduced a new tool this week that provides the platform’s users with personalized healthcare recommendations, CNN reports.

Bulimia nervosa places women at a significantly greater risk of CVB and death than women who have not been diagnosed with the condition, a JAMA Psychiatry study reveals.

Cardiac care is suffering at hospitals that experience data breaches, PBS reported Oct. 24, with one study finding that heart attack rates soar in the weeks and months after a center’s cybersecurity is compromised.

The risks of treating pre-hypertension, pre-diabetes, and similar conditions may outweigh the benefits of doing so, according to Consumer Reports.

The largest study of its kind has found that taking blood pressure medication at bedtime—as opposed to first thing in the morning—lowers heart patients’ risk of death and CV-related illness in the long run.

A study of 300,000 new cases of atrial fibrillation indicates that American Indians may be more prone to the condition than patients in other racial and ethnic groups.

Women who breastfeed for more than one year may be less likely to develop diabetes and hypertension.