The FDA supported the use of the blood pressure medication olmesartan in patients with diabetes after determining that its benefits outweigh potential risks.

Can canola oil help diabetics lower their risks for cardiovascular disease? A research team from the University of Toronto believes it can. 

A cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic flagged the FDA about problems with generic beta-blockers years ago. Now, two manufacturers are recalling their products, admitting that they don’t dissolve as they should, the New York Times reports. 

Telehealth offers a way to expand outreach and simultaneously improve population health. And for a cardiology enterprise, it might not be as expensive you think, according to the director of telehealth and telecardiology at the Minneapolis Heart Institute.

Today’s healthcare system is fragmented and full of misaligned incentives, but it can be transformed with discipline, patience and adherence to evidence-based medicine, said Chris Lloyd, CEO of the Memorial Hermann Physician Network in Houston. “You have to go slow to go fast,” he advised.

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation, and so is the C-suite in hospital systems. The emerging role of chief experience officer (CXO) provides strategic guidance to hospitals as they try to engage patients and their families in the care process.

Here are some words of wisdom from the MedAxiom Cardiovascular Service Line Symposium in Beaver Creek, Colo. These snippets occurred June 18, the first day of the three-day event.

Even the best can do better. Michael Mack, MD, medical director of cardiovascular surgery at Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, shared strategies used by his cardiovascular service line that helped place them among top performers as well as the challenges they still face.