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Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson-owned company focused on cardiac arrhythmia treatment, announced that several of its catheter products have received FDA approval for a zero fluoroscopy workflow, according to an Aug. 4 news release. 

Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Ind., has the fastest median time to transfer a patient to another facility for acute coronary intervention, CMS found.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso received a $25 million gift from the Fox Family Foundation to help build West Texas' first comprehensive cancer center.

Five cancer hospitals received a perfect score from CMS for moderate-to-severe pain care plans.

An AI-powered machine learning tool may allow physicians to better identify origins in enigmatic cancers, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. 

Eleven newly named researchers will be the first group to embark on President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot, sharing $5.4 million in scholarships to "fight to end cancer as we know it," according to an Aug. 3 White House news release.

Cost-Saving Robotic Tech Bringing World-Class Care to >90% of Cancer Patients Who Currently Lack Access

William Roberts, MD, a "legend in cardiovascular medicine," died at 90 from renal cell carcinoma.

A new method for monitoring critically ill patients with circulatory shock developed by researchers at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital may reduce risk of death and other negative outcomes, while also predicting potential length of hospital stay, according to an Aug.…

Deaths from coronary heart disease have declined by 68 percent in females and 64 percent in the last three decades, according to new research published in the American Heart Journal.