The federal government will no longer pay to cover heart transplants for Medicare patients at Medical University Hospital in South Carolina, the Post and Courier reports.

Medtronic announced a new professional development program in its Europe, Middle East and Africa regions to promote value-based healthcare initiatives.

By 2035, an estimated 45 percent of the U.S. population could have cardiovascular disease, and the costs associated with the condition could nearly double from today to $1.1 trillion, according to a new report.

Louisiana Heart Hospital will close by the end of the month, The Times-Picayune reports.

Adults with heart disease, hypertension and other chronic disease who had a low-deductible or high-deductible plan had greater out-of-pocket spending and more frequent high medical cost burdens compared with those with no-deductible plans.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a fast track designation for the Generx cardiovascular angiogenic gene therapy, which is being developed as a one-time treatment to improve exercise tolerance in patients with angina.

The mean length of stays in the hospital were 5.7 days for acute MI and 6.4 days for heart failure, while the mean costs per readmission were $9,424 and $9,051, respectively.

Merit Medical Systems announced on Feb. 6 that it had acquired interventional cardiology products from Argon Medical Devices and Catheter Connections.