Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Rochester (N.Y.) Wilmot Cancer Institute and New York City-based Mount Sinai, NYU Langone Health and Weill Cornell Medicine have established the Empire State Cellular Therapy Consortium. Member organizations will have expanded…
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Despite the volume of cardiovascular services performed in ASCs projected to grow 15% between 2023 and 2028, according to an article published July 7 in JACC, Medicare reimbursement for cardiovascular procedures varies across clinical settings. Here are the Medicare reimbursement…
In 2021, about 25% of all ASCs in the U.S. had hospital shareholders, according to an article published July 7 in JACC. With the volume of ASCs in the U.S. expected to grow 21% by 2034, researchers were interested in…
In a recent American College of Cardiology survey, 40% of cardiologists said they had not received any training in cardiogenetic testing, according to a study to be published in the forthcoming August 2025 issue of JACC: Advances. The ACC surveyed…
The FDA has given 510(k) clearance to health tech company Aktiia for over-the-counter use of its G0 Blood Pressure Monitoring system. According to the FDA website, the device received clearance July 2. The system, already available in Europe, is the…
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In June, Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health tapped Gary Deng, MD, PhD, as director of the Integrative Oncology program at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, in partnership with the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. Dr. Deng was also…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute has become the first site in Ohio to clinically administer Flyrcado for the detection of coronary artery disease and arterial blockages. Flyrcado is a first-of-its-kind advanced positron emission tomography-scan myocardial perfusion imaging…
Surgeons from Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and USF Health, also based in Tampa, partnered to perform the world’s first recorded bloodless heart-liver transplant. The procedure was led by Kiran Dhanireddy, MD, vice president and chief of the TGH Transplant Institute,…
In June, New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health appointed Samir Taneja, MD, as the system chair of urology and chair of the Smith Institute for Urology. Also serving as senior vice president, Dr. Taneja came to Northwell after 29 years…
Mississippi had the highest mortality rate across all cancer types between 2018 and 2022, according to data published by the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society used data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries to calculate…