A survey of physicians found that 73 percent incorrectly believed an FDA approval meant a drug had comparable effectiveness to an approved medication and 70 percent incorrectly believed the FDA required a statistically significant and clinically important effect before approving a drug.

People who live within 1,500 feet of a highway may be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease compared with people who live twice as far away, the Boston Globe reports. 

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) notified 1,400 institutions that patient data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) might have been breached.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) announced it had cancelled the EuroPRevent 2016 conference, which was scheduled for May 5-7 in Istanbul.

Although approximately half of all medical school graduates are women, fewer than 20 percent of cardiologists who see adult patients are women, according to an American College of Cardiology (ACC) survey.

Marcia Angell, MD, an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine from 1979 to 2000, wrote in the Boston Globe about the importance of conflict of interest policies.

CHICAGO – Participants in a low-cost, workplace-based, physical activity and wellness mobile health intervention program had significant increases in daily step counts, exercise days and weight loss.

CHICAGO – Patients who presented to the emergency department with chest pain had significantly fewer follow-up stress tests and were significantly more knowledgeable about their risks and their management options if they used a shared decision-making tool with physicians than if they only received standard counseling, according to a randomized trial.