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Physicians at Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Washington Hospital Center have completed the 300th implant of the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device, which treats patients with advanced heart failure, making it one of the first four LVAD programs nationwide to do…

Cancer treatment must be balanced with equal efforts to prevent and control its occurrence, researchers wrote in a report published Nov. 30 in Translational Behavioral Medicine. 

An artificial intelligence algorithm that can identify cardiac dysfunction from a single-lead EKG also can predict long-term survival for patients following cardiac surgery, a new study published Dec. 1 in Mayo Clinical Proceedings found. 

Below are four cardiologists who recently joined new practices or stepped into new roles. 

Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center announced Nov. 29 that its Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Program’s cardiac team recently performed its 100th TAVR procedure.

NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new center dedicated to blood and marrow transplants, according to a Nov. 29 press release.

Camden, N.J.-based Virtua Health named Chun (Dan) Choi, MD, as vice president of clinical operations for cardiovascular services, according to a Nov. 29 press release.

University of Chicago Medicine physicians have completed 55 heart transplants in 2021, with two back-to-back procedures on Thanksgiving setting an Illinois state record for the year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Nov. 26. 

Treatment with antihistamines was associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors, according to an MD Anderson study published Nov. 24 in Cancer Cell.

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health named Elizabeth Bigger, MD, the system's new oncologist and hematologist, according to a Nov. 22 press release.