Hospitals in California, Illinois and New York performed especially well, according to the outcomes-based rankings. 

How does COVID-19 impact most athletes? When should clinicians turn to cardiac imaging? A team of specialists discussed these topics, and more, in JAMA Cardiology. 

“This is a disaster,” the specialist said. “People are going to start dying. As a matter a fact, they started dying already.”

The veteran cardiologist had been battling COVID-19 for several months. 

The new guidance was designed to help clinicians provide high-quality care before, during and after TAVR procedures. 

The new guidelines come straight from the American College of Cardiology. 

The teams behind two new studies explored very different ways to predict severe illness or death among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

Medical scribes can save cardiologists a lot of time, and seeing just one additional patient a day would cover the additional costs. 

The analysis focused on more than 241,000 patients with diabetes.