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Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles opened the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center June 29, a new 45,000-square-foot outpatient facility that has been seven years in the making.

The rate of metabolic syndrome — a group of risk factors linked to a higher likelihood of developing conditions such as heart disease — has risen in people between the ages of 20 and 40 years, a new study shows.

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare has opened the $93.5 million, 253,000-square-foot Sentara Brock Cancer Center.

Receiving certain common treatments, such as chemotherapy, did not worsen outcomes for cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19, a new study shows.

Erlanger Health System and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center announced June 26 a new agreement designating VICC as Erlanger's only contracted provider of inpatient and outpatient hematology and oncology services. 

The $17.5 million expansion that will house the Heart and Vascular Center at AdventHealth Sebring (Fla.) will open to the public at the end of June.

The FDA will create a website to host information on patient-reported symptoms from cancer-related clinical trials, making it more easily accessible to the public and healthcare professionals.

Two professional cardiology societies are partnering to create a registry that includes data on patients with vascular diseases, according to an article in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology.

Blood tests can serve as an accurate, less-invasive method for brain tumor diagnostics and categorization, according to a study published June 22 in Nature Medicine.

Seven cardiology leaders shared small changes that have made a big difference in their programs' clinical, financial or operational outcomes.