Here are three recent moves from the American College of Cardiology Becker's has reported on since March 16: 

The American Heart Association and The Joint Commission will begin offering a Comprehensive Heart Attack Center certification program July 1. 

Four hospitals and health systems that have opened new heart clinics or launched new programs since March 23: 

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has opened a heart disease clinic for pregnant and postpartum women. 

A patient who received a double heart valve replacement at the University of Alabama in Birmingham on Oct. 2, 1990, was recently named the Guinness World Record holder for the longest survivor of the procedure.

Here are four recent cardiology guidance updates Becker's has reported on since Feb. 23: 

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia launched the CHOP Cardiovascular Institute to further research into pediatric cardiovascular diseases.

People with elevated risks for heart attack or stroke are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized and require intensive care unit admission if they contract COVID-19, new research from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases suggests.

Here are five cardiologists who have recently stepped into new roles: 

Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, has been elected the 19th president of the Association of Black Cardiologists. 

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System launched an outpatient pediatric cardiology practice across eight locations in Virginia and Maryland, it said last week. 

Around 1 in 4 adults have a commonly missed liver condition that increases the risk of heart disease, the American Heart Association said April 14.

Atlantic Health System's Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center launched the first hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sports cardiology fellowship in the U.S., it said April 11.

Here are seven recent cardiology-related studies published by Becker's since Feb. 1, starting with the most recent:

The Medical University of South Carolina recently became the first academic medical center, and second medical center in the world, to use a minimally invasive procedure to implant a heart failure treatment device, it said April 9.

The FDA approved Abbott's Aveir single-chamber leadless pacemaker for the treatment of slow heart rhythms.

Cleveland Clinic Weston (Fla.) Hospital added Jason Wheeler, MD, to its department of vascular medicine, the hospital said April 6. 

Here are three recent studies on diabetes Becker's has covered since March 22: 

News about soaring teen prediabetes rates was Becker's most read cardiology story in March.

Only 18 percent of patients with infected heart devices underwent surgeries to have them removed, despite removal being recommended by all medical society guidelines, according to a new study from Durham, N.C.-based Duke University.