An internal review by Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital uncovered 13 cases in which heart surgery patients were harmed by medical care from 2015 to 2018 but that went unreported until recently. Florida law requires such incidents to be reported within 15 days, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Nearly a quarter of physicians who develop, draft and author clinical guidelines could have potentially relevant undisclosed ties to pharmaceutical companies, a team of Australian researchers reported Feb. 5 in BMJ Open.

CVS Health announced Feb. 4 it will be offering free “Know Your Numbers” heart health screenings every Thursday this month—including Valentine’s Day—in an effort to boost CVD prevention across the country.

A handful of hospitals have implemented mandatory screenings of medical professionals older than 70 to tease out which ones should retire, reduce their workloads or transition to roles outside of patient care. But far more institutions don’t have any such processes in place.

Cardiovascular hospitalizations in Louisiana rose sharply after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005—an increase that seemed to disproportionately affect black patients—Tufts researchers reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Dozens of editors from major cardiovascular journals have banded together to “sound the alarm that human lives are at stake” in a recent Journal of the American Heart Association editorial exploring the role of misinformation in cardiology.

The American Heart Association issued an urgent call to action Jan. 24, citing a “disturbing plateau” in CVD outcomes that’s stemmed from a lag in drug innovations, poorer quality of care and a rise in the prevalence of risk factors like obesity and hypertension.

Two new lawsuits have been filed against Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, the fourth and fifth malpractice complaints involving heart transplants at the Houston hospital since the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica exposed problems with its transplant program last year.