Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Jonathan Riess, MD, the new medical director of its thoracic oncology program, the system said Dec. 15.
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Four hospitals and health systems have recently opened cardiac catheterization labs and other specialty heart centers.
Livingston, N.J.-based Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center recently became one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to use the Monarch Platform, a robotic bronchoscopy technology used to detect lung cancer, the hospital said Dec. 9.
Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network's Cardiovascular Institute opened a new cardiac catheterization laboratory, TribLive reported Dec. 15.
Dallas-based Medical City Heart Hospital recently performed the first heart transplant using a new technique known as donation after cardiac death, or DCD, in Texas, the hospital said Dec. 15.
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The former chief of cardiovascular surgery at Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital has launched a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to raise enough money to sue the hospital over his firing, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The American Heart Association has invested $10 million in grants to fund studies that evaluate COVID-19's long-term effects on heart and brain health.
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute plans to open a new facility at WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital in Keyser, W.Va., in January.
Dennis Kraus, MD, and Jeffrey Albert, MD, have joined Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health's oncology service line.
Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor received a $30 million gift that will establish a prostate cancer center.