Aurora, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center paused heart surgeries between 2022 and 2023 due to lack of staff, but did not tell the federal Veterans Health Administration, The Denver Post reported June 24.
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The Hospital of Central Connecticut, part of Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare, has filed an application with the state seeking permission to relocate its medical oncology service in a move it said will better accommodate expansions, the Hartford Business Journal reported June…
Orlando, Fla.-based AdventHealth Cancer Institute launched a first-of-its-kind bladder cancer vaccine trial that will use patient-customized mRNA vaccines.
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of North Carolina, has tapped Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, to become its next executive director, it announced June 19.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute has become the first in the world to implant a new Duo venous stent system.
Nathan Berger, MD, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center's former chief of the hematology and oncology division, died June 16.
Stanford (Calif.) University researchers found chronic hypertension in pregnant patients doubled in the last two decades, from 1.8% to 3.7%.
A Seattle-based UW Medicine heart failure program is keeping patients out of the hospital and providing indefinite care for vulnerable heart failure patients.
Patients with heart failure, or suspected of having it, are not being diagnosed quickly enough, according to a study involving 8,000 patients, which was presented June 15 at the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
Like many small hospitals, Doylestown (Pa.) Health provides cancer care but often sees patients going to larger centers such as Fox Chase Cancer Center or Penn Medicine, both based in Philadelphia. This has led Sean Reinhardt, MD, chief medical officer…