Californian Kerry O’Shea has filed a lawsuit against the American Heart Association (AHA) and Campbell Soup in a federal court in New Jersey under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, taking aim at sodium levels in the Healthy Request brand, according to Bloomberg. The soup labels boast AHA’s “Heart-Check Mark” logo.

Preconditioning the heart with brief episodes of ischemia before an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) protected the heart from injury and lowered the risk of mortality, German researchers found in a study published Aug. 17 in The Lancet.

World-renowned cardiologist and researcher Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology,  the nation’s leading source of  clinical information in the area of cardiovascular medicine and the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology.

St. Jude Medical announced that the FDA approved an ablation catheter system that the company says may reduce the duration of radiation exposure during procedures.

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego today celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU).

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees has named Jeff Bolton Mayo Clinic's next vice president, administration and chief administrative officer and recognized two recipients of Mayo Clinic named professorships.

Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital have created a new route to the heart to implant an artificial heart valve by temporarily connecting major blood vessels that do not normally intersect.

For cardiac surgeons, the wait may be over. Patients with flail mitral valve regurgitation who underwent early surgery had better long-term survival and lower risk of heart failure than counterparts who were medically managed, according to a study published Aug. 14 in JAMA. But watchful waiting still may be the best approach in some circumstances.