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Four medical societies on June 30 shared new guidelines that aim to reduce blood loss during heart surgeries and improve patient outcomes.

University of MIchigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, part of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, is among the first in the U.S. to perform a catheter-based pulmonary valve replacement on a congenital heart disease patient.

Shifts to outpatient care are one of the greatest challenges cardiology departments at hospitals are navigating today, says Connie Boyd, cardiovascular service line director at Santa Barbara (Calif.) Cottage Hospital.

Nuvance Health has named Richard Kaplon, MD, chief of cardiac surgery at Danbury (Conn.) Hospital, the health system said June 28.

Infusion centers often face big challenges with overbooking and uneven patient loads, which are challenging for both patients waiting for treatments and nurses providing care.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Children's Hospital has selected Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, as chief of pediatric hematology and oncology, effective Oct. 1. 

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare has performed the world's first structural heart procedure using 4D hologram technology, the health system said June 23. 

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center has received a five-year, $10.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to support research projects focused on lung cancer metabolism. 

An observational study involving more than 200,000 participants suggests heart failure patients have an increased risk of later developing any type of cancer, compared to those without the condition, according to findings presented June 28 at the European Society of Cardiology's…

An investigational treatment was linked to a 40 percent reduction in deaths among men with castration-resistant prostate cancer, compared to patients who only received the standard of care, according to trial findings published June 23 in The New England Journal…