The Cleveland Clinic named bioresorbable stents as one of the top 10 medical innovations for 2017.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that three facilities had met its standards for performing carotid artery stenting for high-risk patients.

Females had a higher one-year survival rate following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared with males who underwent the same procedure, according to a national registry analysis.

Novartis has launched a social network called Together in HF for heart failure patients and caregivers.

Approximately 800,000 adults suffer a stroke each year, making the condition a leading cause of death in the U.S. Research has shown that patients benefit from adhering to their medications and reducing risk factors such as smoking and obesity. A recent study suggests they may also survive longer after a stroke if they remain married.

Professor William Wijns, co-director of EuroPCR and chairman of PCR, has joined NUI Galway as a professor of medical devices. He will head the $5 million research project to develop wearable sensors for patients at high risk of heart attacks.

A retrospective, observational cohort study found that veterans who received statins on the day of and/or the day after noncardiac surgery had a lower 30-day all-cause mortality compared with those who did not receive statins. Statin use was also associated with a reduced risk of other complications, including cardiac arrest and MI.

New major recommendations for the use of surgical ablation in treating atrial fibrillation have been issued by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Dec. 19 in an effort to improve surgical outcomes and the quality of patient care.