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Currently, there are not enough graduating cardiology fellows to replace the aging cardiology workforce — one of the specialty's greatest challenges today, according to Darshak Karia, MD, director of the heart failure program, and director of mechanical circulatory support devices…

Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute, part of WVU Medicine, later this month will start traveling to rural regions in the state to provide fully mobile lung cancer screening to residents, the health system said Aug. 5. 

As health systems work to reduce costs and embrace medical advancements, cancer centers must find ways to align the care they deliver with reimbursement that will keep them financially viable.

A physician's presence may prompt changes to patients' nerve activity, interfering with accurate blood pressure readings, a small study published Aug. 9 in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal, suggests. 

Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy may benefit patients with microsatellite stable colorectal cancer whose disease has not spread to the liver, according to research published Aug. 9 in JAMA Network Open. 

James Edney, MD, former division chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, died in a small plane crash in Minnesota Aug. 7, the StarTribune reports. He was 72. 

Of 16,732 patients with metastatic prostate cancer who died after being diagnosed between 2000 and 2016, nearly 17 percent died from other causes, according to a study published Aug. 5 in JAMA Network Open.

Michelle Crain, MSN, RN, vice president of the cardiovascular service line, administrator and COO of Heart Hospital of Lafayette (La.), shared her top leadership advice during a recent episode of the Becker's Healthcare cardiology podcast.

U.S. News & World Report evaluated 592 hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery for its 2021-22 rankings, scoring them based on the care they provide for patients with complex heart and vascular cases, including heart transplants, implantation of cardiac devices,…

U.S. News & World Report evaluated 913 hospitals for cancer care for its 2021-22 rankings, scoring them based on patient outcomes, volume of high-risk patients, patient experience, nurse staffing and advanced clinical technologies.