An exodus of baby boomer nurses from the U.S. workforce has already begun and will rapidly progress over the next few years, a recent survey indicates.

Women now account for 34 percent of practicing physicians in the U.S., whereas only 7 percent of medical school graduates in 1966 were women. Despite this shrinking gender gap, biases remain among patients and even other medical professionals, wrote Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, in The New York Times.

A recent survey suggests medical orders are commonly transmitted via text message even though the majority of respondents said their facilities have policies prohibiting the practice.

As medical technologies and research advance in the digital age, clinicians are faced with the field of “e-health,” a growing and shifting subset of the healthcare industry that’s opened up a wealth of opportunities to create more streamlined practices.

Just weeks after the American Heart Association announced its first update to national hypertension guidelines in more than a decade, the organization and the American Medical Association are honoring 310 physician practices and health systems for their work in combating high blood pressure.

Cardiac biomarkers expert James L. Januzzi, MD, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about his latest research and where he sees biomarker testing heading in the next few years.

People with HIV and risk factors for heart disease and stroke are less likely to receive prescriptions for statins and aspirin than those without HIV, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

During the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, Michael J. Rinaldi, MD, showed a survey of 92 health systems in which 52 percent reported an average negative margin on TAVR procedures. In an hour-long session, Rinaldi and other experts agreed shortening hospital stays and reducing the number of days spent in the intensive care unit (ICU) are key aspects in making TAVR more profitable for hospitals.