Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, North Carolina, now offers comprehensive cardiology services with the opening of a new practice, reports the Wilmington Biz.

Two New York health providers, Albany Medical Center in and Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson, will merge their cardiology departments as they aim to strengthen services at the Hudson Hospital, reports the Times Union.

Ra Medical Systems, makers of excimer lasers and catheters for cardiovascular and dermatological diseases, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the Company a broad patent (No. 9700655) that covers Ra Medical Systems’ DABRATM catheter for cardiovascular disease treatment.

Core Cardiology in Exeter, New Hampshire, has hired a new interventional cardiologist as it expands the department, reports Seacoast Online.

University Hospital in Cleveland has named Mehdi H. Shishehbor, MD, the director of its Cardiovascular Interventional Center, reports Crain’s Cleveland Business.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — A review appearing in the July 18 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) discusses current and next-generation implantable hemodynamic monitors and how new approaches focused on the direct measurement of left atrial pressure (LAP), seek to expand the use of pressure-guided congestive heart failure (CHF) management.

Because liver transplants are among the surgeries at the highest risk to cause cardiac problems, researchers at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago have developed an app that can predict a liver transplant patient’s one-year risk of dying or being hospitalized due to a heart attack or other cardiac event.

Minneapolis, MN, July 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioSig Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary platform designed to address an unmet technology need within the $4+ billion electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today announced that the Company has engaged Health Research International (HRI) to compile essential market data and help perform strategic planning for its PURE EP(TM) platform technology.