New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System named Raymond Benza, MD, director of pulmonary hypertension.

Middletown, New York-based Garnet Health Medical Center recently launched its open-heart surgery program, Mid Hudson News reported Dec. 4.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has taken part in testing and researching a headset designed to help emergency technicians better identify large vessel occlusion ischemic strokes prior to patients arriving at the hospital.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine researchers found radiation therapy can improve outcomes in patients with ventricular tachycardia.

A recent study found noninvasive ultrasound therapy could be a treatment option for some patients who cannot undergo surgical or transcatheter valve replacement.

Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for "widow-maker" heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.

Continuing regular check-ups for some mothers into the "fourth-trimester" — the three month after giving birth —may help reduce cardiovascular-related deaths, a top indirect cause of maternal deaths, according to the American Heart Association.

Here are 41 heart hospitals and programs recently earning designations and accreditations:

Kids and teens who have been treated for multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, after a COVID-19 infection should be given a follow-up cardiac assessment, according to experts at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Getting a flu vaccination may lower the risk of heart attack by 26% and the risk of cardiovascular deaths by 33%, according to a new meta-analysis published Nov. 19 in Scientific Reports.

Two recent studies found drugs that have shown to significantly lower genetic cholesterol.

Fifty hospitals were selected as the top in the nation for vascular care, according to a Healthgrades ranking released Oct. 24.

A recent study found cardiovascular mortality increased 9.3% from 2019 to 2022.

The American Heart Association plans to unveil a new heart disease risk calculator where race is no longer considered a factor. 

Sriram Naidu, MD, a pioneering cardiologist, died Oct. 27 after contracting an idiopathic lung illness, Newsday reported. He was 86.

Scientists from New York City-based Mount Sinai will send bioengineered human heart muscle cells and micro-tissues to space, according to a Nov. 14 news release shared with Becker's. 

Rhode Island health officials have reprimanded a cardiologist who performed surgery after he tested positive for COVID-19, NBC affiliate WJAR reported Nov. 9.

Idaho has the fewest cardiologists per capita, with 57 practicing cardiologists in the state.

One hundred hospitals were selected as the top in the nation for coronary intervention, according to a Healthgrades ranking released Oct. 24.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC unveiled plans for a $62 million heart care center for pediatric patients, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Nov. 7.