Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the medical community, research has traditionally focused on how to prevent and treat the leading medical causes of maternal mortality, which include bleeding, infection, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. However, new research reveals deaths by homicide and suicide are the leading causes of maternal death in the United States. In a
MedPage Today) — Taking action on and adapting to climate change are among the most powerful health interventions of our time. The healthcare sector can generate and uplift climate solutions that foster healthy and equitable communities and a…
MedPage Today) — LOS ANGELES — Clinicians working in advanced heart failure vented their frustrations about the shrinking number of device therapies left from round after round of FDA recalls. Could a changed regulatory climate under the Trump…
MedPage Today) — LOS ANGELES — Cardiac surgeons were urged to readjust their attitudes toward the tricuspid valve if they want to keep some footing in a rapidly evolving field dominated by transcatheter innovations. At the Society of Thoracic…
Interventional cardiology training in the United States has joined the National Resident Matching Program, known as The Match, for the 2025 applicant year. With this change, all major cardiology areas are now part of the program, according to representatives of the specialty and of the matching program…
The number of women cardiologists presenting at grand rounds has increased steadily over 25 years in the United States, but in some subspecialties, women grand round speakers remain markedly underrepresented, according to the first published study on the topic. Ersilia M. DeFilippis, MD, with the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care at Columbia University Irving Medical
Microscopic image of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, posing a particularly significant threat to people with HIV (PWH). To address this, CVD prevention plans rely on prediction models like atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk scores to estimate the risk of heart disease.
Despite the success cardiac rehabilitation has shown at reducing heart-related deaths and hospital readmissions, higher out-of-pocket costs may prevent patients from participating in the program, a Michigan Medicine study suggests…
Nearly half of adults with hypertension (HTN) are not aware of their diagnosis. But recognition is even worse in pediatric patients. Abbas H. Zaidi, MD “Less than 25% of children with hypertension get a diagnosis, and of those who get a diagnosis, 50% of those children are not receiving any intervention,” said Abbas H…
MedPage Today) — People with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) on top of aortic stenosis (AS) fared particularly poorly in a large cohort study, which researchers said calls for awareness and timely treatment. Compared with AS alone…