Health Diagnostics Laboratory, a bankrupt cardiac biomarker laboratory, filed a Chapter 11 liquidation plan, Richmond BizSense reports. In April, Health Diagnostics Laboratory agreed to pay $47 million to settle allegations from the Department of Justice that it paid doctors in exchange for patient referrals and billed Medicare for unnecessary testing.

A Senate panel approved prominent cardiologist Robert Califf, MD, as the FDA commissioner on Jan. 12. However, reports suggest the full Senate may not approve Califf anytime soon.

Assessing a person’s coronary artery calcium (CAC) score led to a modest improvement in predicting the risk for primary atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to an analysis of nontraditional cardiovascular risk markers.

One morning last year, a patient checked into a hospital in Canada as the first TAVR case of the day, and they were discharge by that evening. It was an eyebrow-raising feat for a procedure that typically requires several days of hospitalization.

There’s a new executive taking a seat in hospital boardrooms across the country. Responding to ACA mandates that tie patient satisfaction to reimbursement, hospitals are recruiting CXOs to take charge of a patient experience mission that prioritizes the expectations of patients and families.

A review of 21 trials of oral antithrombotic medications found that the published rate of patients lost to follow-up was significantly lower than the FDA’s follow-up calculations.

Adults who received cancer-related cardiotoxic therapy as children are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease later in life, according to a cross-sectional study. The researchers mentioned that survivors of childhood cancer may have cardiovascular disease at an earlier age and may have substantial morbidity.

Researchers found the prevalence of truncating variants in genes was similar between women with peripartum cardiomyopathy and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Two-thirds of the truncating variants were in their TTN gene, which is the largest protein in the body.