Five newly proposed care and payment models could ease Americans’ worries about affordability and quality care in their health system, according to a review published in JAMA Cardiology this month.

Medtronic reported worldwide revenue of $7.05 billion for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, a decrease of 4 percent driven by the sale of its Patient Care, Deep Vein Thrombosis (Compression) and Nutritional Insufficiency businesses to Cardinal Health at the beginning of the quarter.

Despite a growing number of states requiring high school students to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), nearly 700,000 students graduate each year without receiving training due to lack of legislation, according to a review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Two presentations at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions in Anaheim, California, highlighted ways in which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has changed the healthcare experience for patients—one good, one not so good.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are joining forces to reduce the cost of drug discovery and the time it takes a new drug to enter the marketplace.

A hospital and a cardiology practice in Erie, Pennsylvania, have agreed to pay the U.S. government a $20.7 million settlement after a lawsuit alleged the hospital paid the physician-owned practice millions of dollars for referrals for heart procedures.

More than three-fourths of patients without health insurance who were hospitalized for heart attack, stroke or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery incurred catastrophic healthcare expenses before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to research presented Nov. 13 and 14 at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions in Anaheim, California.

A program that financially penalizes hospitals for excess readmissions for heart failure may have an unintended consequence: higher rates of 30-day and one-year mortality in those patients.