The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a new specialty code for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologists.

Patients with chronic heart failure who received omecantiv mecarbil achieved plasma concentrations associated with improved cardiac function and decreased ventricular function, according to a randomized trial.

The FDA granted Cardiac Dimensions an investigation device exemption for the company to begin a pivotal trial evaluating the Carillon mitral contour system to treat symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation associated with heart failure.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that three facilities had met its standards for destination therapy with ventricular assist devices.

Experts are divided over whether daily aspirin for healthy people is a good thing; the latest study attempts to clarify the confusion. 

Since 2005, the mortality from myocarditis has decreased, although it remains a difficult disease to treat and diagnose, according to a recent review.

Medtronic has signed a deal to operate the catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Cleveland.

Cigarette smokers who were younger than 50 years old were more than eight times more likely to have an acute ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI) than non-smokers in their age category, according to an analysis of two studies in the United Kingdom.