Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has established the new McLaren Heart & Vascular Institute, unifying cardiology, vascular and cardiothoracic services across 13 of the health system's Michigan hospitals.
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New York City-based NYU Langone hospital had the lowest 30-day mortality rate for heart attack patients in the U.S. between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data released July 31.
People who had a confirmed case of COVID-19 during the pandemic's first wave have twice the risk of heart attack, stroke and death compared to those who were never infected, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center had the lowest 30-day unplanned readmission rate of cancer hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
The state of Wyoming had the lowest breast cancer screening rate in 2022 at 59.5% — nearly 20% lower than the state with the highest rate of 78.4%, Rhode Island.
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Omaha, Neb.-based University of Nebraska Medical Center's Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center has launched a new cancer prevention and control program to address cancer risk factors and population disparities specific to Nebraska.
Effective Sept. 10, the FDA required healthcare facilities providing breast imaging services to notify patients of their breast density in mammography reports. Now, some experts are expressing concern over the new mandate, according to an Oct. 12 report from NBC…
Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix has become the third U.S. hospital to perform a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart implantation as part of the FDA's early feasibility study.
The National Cancer Institute has launched a toolkit as part of its National Standards for Cancer Survivorship Care initiative to help health systems develop and improve survivorship care programs.
Kansas City-based University of Kansas Cancer Center has launched the Center for Survivorship and Patient-Oriented Research as part of an initiative to improve not only cancer survival rates, but cancer survivor quality of life.