The American Heart Association is awarding its Meritorious Achievement honor to two women from separate major companies who teamed up to advance health equity. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System achieved a healthcare "first" with the world's smallest heart pump, the device's manufacturer said June 7. 

Alina Joseph is not your traditional heart and vascular services leader. 

The FDA approved the first intravenous iron replacement therapy for adults with heart failure.

Researchers in the U.K. and Ireland found serious heart attacks are more likely to happen on Monday than any other day of the week.

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Hospital is closing its heart transplant and inpatient burn units due to low patient volumes.

An Indiana physician was found negligent and ordered to pay more than $2.6 million to a patient after a botched cardiac catheterization left the patient's right leg "disfigured and virtually unusable," wane.com reported May 26.

Here are the 10 most-read cardiology stories published by Becker's in May:

Researchers predicted that by 2060, cardiovascular disease such as heart disease and stroke will increase by at least 30 percent in the U.S.

Having a heart attack can be directly associated with a drop in cognitive abilities, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine study published May 30 in JAMA Neurology.

A new genetic test called polygenic risk score could help some patients reduce their risk of heart attack at a young age, The New York Times reported May 30.

The Heart Institute at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh received $7.5 million from Acrisure.

Recent health care metrics demonstrate a concerning trend: rural Americans face higher mortality rates than urban residents.

Mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder can influence healing after a major cardiac event, according to a May 23 article on the American Heart Association website.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System's Heart and Vascular Institute received a $75 million gift from real estate magnate Dwight Schar and his wife, Martha Schar.

An electrophysiologist at Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center helped invent a new device that makes atrial fibrillation treatment safer.

Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a heart that broke the record for distance a donor heart successfully traveled.

Global progress against cardiovascular disease is stagnating while deaths have soared by 60 percent in the last three decades, a May 20 World Heart Federation report found.

The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and the Association of Black Cardiologists released a joint statement May 17 calling on cardiologists to take an active role in preventing deaths in pregnant women.

A Kentucky cardiologist filed a defamation lawsuit May 15 against Owensboro (Ky.) Health Regional Hospital and two of its physicians, the Messenger-Inquirer reported May 19.