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The U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program awarded Erik Nelson, PhD, the $4.5 million Era of Hope Scholar Award Oct. 30 to lead a research team that will study metastatic breast cancer treatment and prevention. 

Mark Zucker, MD, director of Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center's heart transplant program left his role Oct. 30 after being on administrative leave for the last year, reports ProPublica.

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian appointed Adam Bass, MD, founding director of the Center for Precision Cancer Medicine.

Two people died Oct. 30 in a shooting at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center in Fredericksburg, Va., according to InsideNoVa.com. 

Patients in cardiac intensive care units are at increased risk for serious complications that may be preventable with the implementation of best practices and a daily bedside checklist, according to an American Heart Association statement published in Circulation. 

Since the July 2016 Medicaid expansion in Louisiana, there's been a 27 percent increase in early diagnosis of breast cancer, according to an upcoming study set for publication in Cancer. 

Healthgrades' list of the best hospitals for cardiac care in 2021 was Becker's top-read cardiology story in October.

The latest COVID-19 surge is straining hospital capacity in El Paso, Texas, which may have detrimental effects for some heart patients, a local cardiologist told ABC affiliate KVIA.

While progress has been made to address the sex inequities that exist within the field of cardiology, there's still a long path ahead, according to Michelle O'Donoghue, MD. 

Private equity buying sprees in radiation oncology along Florida's Paradise Coast have some physicians, researchers and antitrust regulators concerned, according to Bloomberg.