Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare utilized agentic AI to improve its CMS star measuring rating for blood pressure control from 1-star to 4 stars, according to an abstract presented Sept. 7 at the American Heart Association’s 2025 Scientific Sessions. The study enrolled…
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Mortality from hypertensive kidney disease in the U.S. has grown by 48%, according to an abstract presented Sept. 5 at the American Heart Association’s 2025 Hypertension Scientific Sessions. Researchers analyzed CDC data from 1999 to 2023 to assess changes and…
Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital has achieved twin milestones in the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Care teams from the Advanced Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure and CTEPH program at Temple’s Heart and Vascular Institute have completed their 500th pulmonary…
Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute in Weston, Fla., has appointed Greg Kasper, MD, as director of vascular services and the Len Stuart Distinguished Chair in Vascular Surgery. Dr. Kasper is a vascular surgeon, and previously served as president…
Samir Elian, MD, former chief of cardiology at Flint, Mich.-based Hurley Medical Center, has sued the hospital for alleged retaliation after he raised concerns about insufficient care practices and an inadequate quality assurance program. In a complaint filed Sept. 4…
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New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center has appointed two leaders for its newly established Gastrointestinal Cancer Center. Anirban Maitra, MD, and Manuel Hidalgo, MD, will serve as co-directors of the center, according to a Sept. 5 news…
The 2022 merger of Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health, then dually based in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, created one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country in Advocate Health. “We are poised to push…
Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare has appointed Kay Yoon-Flannery, DO, as chief of women’s oncology at the AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.. She will lead alignment of breast, gynecologic and genetic cancer services across the system, according…
University Hospitals’ Seidman Cancer Center has received a $3.5 million gift to support efforts to triple capacity for clinical trials within the next five years. The gift comes from Kathy Coleman, who has donated more than $14 million to the…
Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard University is the No. 1 university in the U.S. for cardiac and cardiovascular systems, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking. The list was published in June as part of U.S. News’ 2025-2026 “Best Global…