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President Joe Biden is relaunching Cancer Moonshot, a program to reduce cancer deaths by 50 percent over the next 25 years and improve the experience of living with and surviving cancer, the White House said Feb. 2.

Cancer prevention, screening, and survivorship resources will be cross-shared on American Cancer Society and American Society of Clinical Oncology patient and consumer education websites, the organizations said Feb. 1. 

Blood pressure spikes, or hypertensive crises, hospitalizations nearly doubled in the U.S. from 2002 to 2014, a study published Jan. 27 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found.

The Imperial College of London and the UK National Health Service found an AI-powered device can screen for heart failure during physical exams, according to a study published Feb. 1 in The Lancet.

Forty-one percent of Americans have experienced at least one heart-related issue since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, the Cleveland Clinic said Feb. 1.

A national clinical writing group updated information regarding cardiogenic shock, including a revised definition, in an expert consensus statement published Jan. 31 in the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions.

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These four oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments over the last few weeks.

Researchers from New York City-based NYU Langone Health have developed a genetic and lifestyle calculator that identifies people under age 50 who are most likely to develop colorectal cancer, the system said Jan. 27. 

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center has added Marcia Cross, actress and co-founder of the HPV Cancers Alliance, to its national board of advisers, the facility said Jan. 27.