To better use technology to treat congestive heart failure, New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital has plans to use CloudMedx Clinical AI Platform, an artificial intelligence services software, reports Fortune.

Physicians typically prescribe statins to lower cholesterol and help reduce the risk of MIs and strokes. The medications have proven to work in numerous clinical trials and are cheap. Still, they are also associated with drug-drug interactions, according to a new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement.

Patients with heart failure may not have to limit their caffeine intake, according to a recent small, randomized study.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the China Social Assistance Foundation announced Oct. 13 that they would open a training center in China focused on bystander response to cardiac arrest.

Shortly after the release of final ruling on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) Oct. 14, American College of Cardiology (ACC) president Richard A. Chazal, MD, commented on the legislation.

More than 16 percent of women who did not survive after being diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer died from cardiovascular disease, according to a population-based cohort study.

A sample of 50 young, healthy adults found that wrist-worn heart rate monitors had variable accuracy and were not as accurate as a chest strap-based monitor. The heart rate monitors were best at rest and diminished during exercise.

Researchers involved in a JAMA Internal Medicine article published in October 2014 have acknowledged they made several errors and requested the original study be retracted and replaced.