Cardinal Health is offering to buy the stent pioneering company Cordis for almost $2 billion, Johnson & Johnson announced.

Many younger women think they’re too young for a heart attack, and healthcare providers don’t take their initial symptoms seriously enough, researchers concluded after interviewing 30 women hospitalized for acute MI.

Rates of optimal care following PCI or CABG surgery were uncomfortably low, according to a study published online Feb. 24 in Circulation. The analysis revealed that by five years of follow-up, only around a third of patients in either group were receiving guideline-based therapies.

People with quick tempers have another reason to try to curb their rage. A small study found that stress related to anger had a significant impact on the risk for MI with coronary occlusion.

The strain from wearing protective lead aprons in the cath lab may be taking a greater toll on allied staff than on physicians. A survey on health hazards in interventional labs found incidence of work-related pain was highest among technicians and nurses.

The Prairie Heart Institute at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, has become the first cardiac catheterization laboratory in Illinois to achieve ACE accreditation. It is also one of the highest volume facilities to achieve this notable accomplishment.

Increasingly, physicians and scientists are discovering the complex connections among genes in the body that influence disease. These discoveries will enable personalized treatments in an emerging area of science known as network medicine.

Draping a lead apron over patients during transradial PCIs reduced radiation to operators but it almost doubled exposure to their patients. Still, researchers argued that the benefit to physicians outweighed the risk to patients.