Hospital readmissions, ER visits and major complications were all less likely when TAVR patients used a smartphone app to assist with their recovery. 

Researchers evaluated two techniques for predicting PPM after TAVR, comparing them to how cardiologists typically check for PPM in day-to-day practice. 

Advanced practice providers have enjoyed a raise in total cash compensation of 16% over the last five years. That’s a sharper upward pay trajectory than physicians or nurses have seen over that period. 

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., plans to file post-trial motions against the $261 million judgment that a Florida jury last week ordered the institution to pay.

The COVID-19 pandemic undid years and years of progress in terms of preventing CVD-related deaths. What can be done to help reverse this trend once and for all? 

While TAVR is safe for minimally symptomatic patients, questions remain about whether or not it is actually needed. A new analysis in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions examines this topic in detail.

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Technology leaders and academic researchers joined with healthcare professionals in Nigeria Nov. 13 to sketch out the future of African healthcare.