Shockwave Medical and FastWave Medical have shared new first-in-human data on their advanced IVL offerings. Both companies are focused on addressing difficult-to-cross lesions that often cause problems for cardiologists.

What do you get when you fall in love with AI in healthcare? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble. 

Tim Andrews, 67, is still alive and is back on the waiting list for a human donor. However, the success of his highly experimental procedure means more patients are scheduled to get genetically modified animal organs.

Just because it’s efficient doesn’t mean it’s effective. Nowhere is this thought more deserving of reflection than in healthcare AI—especially when it’s applied to clinical decision support.

If you’ve sensed healthcare AI spending has been going extra-gangbusters over the past year or so, your perceptions are impressively attuned.

The patient reported chest pain multiple times and had a family history of heart disease. According to the lawsuit, however, he was never referred to a cardiologist. 

Nearly 90% of adults are believed to already have at least one risk factor of CKM syndrome. The American Heart Association hopes patient education and physician collaborations can help increase awareness about this dangerous condition.

A facility outside the United States has received the American Heart Association's Comprehensive Heart Failure Center Certification for the first time.