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Recent cardiology studies have focused on the risk of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for chronic kidney patients, Cleveland-Clinic protocol for heart attacks and more. 

Tara Henderson, MD, has been named the new service line chief of Pediatric Cancer and Blood Diseases at the Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance and section chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at University of Chicago Medicine, according to…

Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System announced plans to further its oncology program at Mount Carmel Grove City through an affiliation with the James Cancer Network at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in a Nov. 23 press release. 

States that were early to adopt Medicaid coverage expansion have seen lower cancer mortality rates than the 11 states that have resisted the change, according to a study from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. 

Recent oncology studies have focused on a national decrease in mortality rates, immunosuppressive cells' responses to stress signals and more. 

Patients with clonal hematopoiesis, an asymptomatic blood condition, can safely serve as stem cell transplant donors, which may lead to expanded donation pools, a study published Nov. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is the first cardiovascular center of excellence in the state to use a drug-coated balloon angioplasty therapy for patients whose arteries have narrowed again following initial treatment, according to a Nov. 17…

An updated risk score from New York City-based Mount Sinai researchers can help predict possible contrast-associated acute kidney injury among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, according to a Nov. 15 press release.

November/December 2021 Issue of Becker’s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control ON THE COVER Pandemic surgery delays exact an emotional toll, too, physicians say As hospitals again pause nonemergency surgeries in response to surging COVID-19 patient volumes, healthcare leaders and physicians…

Cleveland Clinic now offers an advanced genomic testing platform as standard of care to patients with cancer, according to a Nov. 18 press release.