US News & World Report issued their rankings for the top 10 hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery in the country.

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests a patent foramen ovale (PFO), colloquially known as a hole in the heart, can double the risk of stroke within 30 days of non-cardiac surgery.

COPENHAGEN, February 8, 2018 — Acesion Pharma ("Acesion" or the Company), a Danish biotech company developing novel treatments for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, announces today it has received approval to commence its first clinical study for its lead compound AP30663. The phase 1 study in healthy subjects will be conducted at the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in the Netherlands and is due to start in March 2018.

Abbott announced Feb. 7 the FreeStyle LibreLink smartphone application—to be used alongside the company’s continuous glucose monitor—is now available to iPhone and Android users in 12 European countries.

A simple tool to predict neurological outcomes for sufferers of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) could help clinicians determine when invasive coronary management is futile, a study in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions suggests.

For nearly 6,000 patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease (CKD), the use of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) showed no mortality benefit but a higher risk of subsequent hospitalizations after covariate adjustment, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Hypertension during pregnancy is far from a rarity, but in women with severe preeclampsia, the diagnosis could be both cloaked and fatal, new research published in Hypertension suggests.

Exposure to noise pollution has been shown to negatively impact cardiovascular health. But researchers have only recently begun to explore exactly how noise can harm health. A study published online Feb. 6 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology explored the connection between noise and arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke.