CHICAGODavid J. Cohen, MD, director of cardiovascular research at St. Luke's MidAmerica Heart Institute in Kansas City, Mo., discusses the positive quality-of-life data for patients with aortic stenosis who are not suitable candidates for surgery, based on a substudy of the PARTNER trial.

CHICAGOThe American Heart Associations (AHA) Council on Clinical Cardiology presented its highest honor, the James B. Herrick Award, to Elliott M. Antman, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior cardiologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, in recognition of his praiseworthy accomplishments on multiple levels that have profoundly elevated the practice of cardiovascular medicine, during the association's annual scientific sessions this week.

CHICAGOWith an ICU-centered therapeutic hypothermia (TH) program and no formal screening mechanism for patients in the emergency department, the subjective assessment of prior health status may influence the decision for medical staff to initiate TH for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest, according to a scientific poster presented on Nov. 13 at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions.

CHICAGOCardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia may achieve neurological awakening thats not apparent for several days to a week after physicians routinely make recommendations about whether to withdraw care, according to research presented Nov. 13 at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions.

To help put an end to a kickback and unnecessary stenting controversy surrounding the St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md., the facility has agreed to pay $22 million to settle multiple allegations.

Abiomed, a developer of heart support technologies, has reduced its net losses in the second fiscal quarter of 2011, which ended Sept. 30.

Although the use of the transradial approach (TRA) is growing, there is much variation among practice regarding the specifics of TRA, and it is suggested that more data are needed to outline the most optimal strategies for performing the approach, according to a survey published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Interventions.

No significant treatment differences exist between PCI and optimal medical therapy, regardless of which healthcare system a patient is treated in, according to a substudy of the COURAGE trial published in the September issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.