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Cardiology experts highlighted the increase of opportunities with the field of interventional heart failure, advocating for more standardized training pathways in the subspeciality, according to a comprehensive review published Feb. 10 in Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and…

A team at New York City-based NYU Langone successfully implanted the world's smallest pacemaker into a newborn baby suffering from a congenital complete heart block.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has appointed Joseph Bavaria, MD, as executive director of the Bruce & Robbi Toll Heart and Vascular Institute and chair of the department of cardiac surgery at Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College, also in Philadelphia. 

Historically, cancer care largely focused on the fight for survival. Now, thanks to advancements in screening and treatment, many patients are living decades beyond their diagnosis. 

A new blood test has been found to detect early stage pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy when used alongside a carbohydrate antigen 19-9 test, according to a study published Feb. 12 in Science Translational Medicine.

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health will expand radiation oncology services at the system's Greeneville (Tenn.) Community Hospital following a $1 million gift from Scott Niswonger.

John Zaia, MD, director of the Center for Gene Therapy at Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope, died Feb. 11 at age 82.

On Feb. 14, Northwestern Health's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, unexpectedly resigned and retired from government service, The New York Times reported Feb. 12. 

The utilization of virtual reality was found to decrease preoperative anxiety in older patients undergoing open-heart surgery, according to a study published Jan. 4 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.