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Here are seven heart study findings related to COVID-19 infection or vaccination Becker's has covered since Jan. 19: 

Rock Island, Ill.-based Trinity Heart Center recently implanted its 100th Watchman device, ourquadcities.com reported Feb. 17.

Yale Cancer Center invested $1.5 million to improve its hematology/oncology fellowship program, it said Feb. 18.

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey named Sanjay Goel, MD, director of its investigational therapeutics program, it said Feb. 16.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was awarded $31.7 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the center said Feb. 16.

Jae Hyung Cho, MD, PhD, has joined Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles. 

Patients with COVID-19 vaccine-associated heart inflammation had less functional impairment and less extensive myocardial abnormalities than people infected with the virus, a study published Feb. 15 in Radiology found.

Here are four partnerships and affiliations centered on cardiac and cardiovascular care announced recently.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center extended its partnership with Phoenix-based Banner Health for another 10 years, the cancer center said Feb. 15. 

Delayed screenings as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to later-stage cancer diagnoses, a small study published Feb. 15 in JAMA Network Open suggests.