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A paper published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, written by cardiologist Norman C. Wang, MD, that argues against affirmative action initiatives has been retracted by the association.

Linda developed heart failure after giving birth to her second child. When she became pregnant with her third child, she was sent to me for specialized care to help manage her condition throughout the pregnancy. She was terrified for both…

As COVID-19 cases erupted in China this year, NPR's Marc Silver had the same thought as he did about cancer hitting his family — it won't happen to us.

Berwyn, Pa.-based Main Line Health appointed Basel Ramlawi, MD, system chief of cardiac surgery and co-director of the Lankenau Heart Institute in Wynnewood, Pa.

Though hospitalizations for heart attacks dipped in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, they grew in April and May, an analysis of trends at a 49-hospital system shows.

Northwestern Medicine is instructing patients to avoid travel to downtown Chicago and suspending some patient appointments and procedures after hundreds of people looted stores near the hospital campus overnight and early Monday morning. 

While telehealth adoption has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic, the use of remote patient monitoring devices has also climbed among patients, signaling a shift that some physicians say points to the need for device insurance coverage, according to the Pittsburgh…

A new qualitative study in JAMA Oncology analyzed cancer patients' reactions to certain challenging situations during the pandemic.

Surgical delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic won't affect survival rates of some patients with early-stage breast cancer, a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests.

Cleveland Clinic will evaluate the use of a blood test that can detect more than 50 cancers as part of a multisite clinical trial, the system said Aug. 6.