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Thomas Costantino, MD, director of cardiology at Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital's campuses in Ocean Breeze and Prince's Bay, died Dec. 20 at age 80 after a long illness, reports the Staten Island Advance.

The COVID-19 pandemic is overshadowing an equally deadly health threat for much of rural America, a  rise of chronic heart and lung disease, three healthcare leaders wrote in a Jan. 9 op-ed for The Washington Post.

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health removed longtime oncologist Tom Weiner, MD, after learning that the physician had been harming patients for years, CEO Wade Johnson wrote in a letter to the Independent Record.

Cancer survivors may be at increased risk of heart disease since their hearts more often appear older than their actual age in comparison to those who haven't had cancer, according to a Jan. 8 CDC report. 

Here are five recent cancer partnerships and affiliations formed since Dec. 7. 

The American Heart Association is offering new learning modules to help researchers communicate their findings in a way the general public can better understand.

The American Association for Cancer Research and The Lustgarten Foundation, the world's largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research, created two $300,000 research awards to support pancreatic cancer research. The awards honor the legacy of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital is moving some cancer patients to local hotels to recover after surgery as it sees a post-holiday surge of COVID-19 patients, Alabama Local reported Jan. 6. 

Below are four cardiologists who recently joined new practices.

Women with early breast cancer who received statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, during their chemotherapy had a lower risk of heart failure in the five years after their cancer treatment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American…