The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) rallied behind their recently released risk assessment and cholesterol guidelines, arguing that the calculator designed to identify patients at risk is an improvement over previous tools.

The American Heart Association today presented its Chairman’s Award honoring excellence in volunteer service to Ileana Piña, M.D., M.P.H., of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York.

A risk calculator recently unveiled in guidelines by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association may be flawed, according to the New York Times. The article claimed that two reviewers found that the calculator could overestimate risk by as much as 150 percent.

Under the new clinical integration model being implemented at MGH, the “Marquette General Heart and Vascular Institute” will be developed, placing a wide range of cardio and vascular services under a single, unified umbrella medical service line.

To help reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading killer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College have created the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging. Raymond T. Dalio, a life trustee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, has made a gift of $20 million through his Dalio Foundation in support of the institute.

Demystifying meditation with science, researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) have teamed with The Chopra Foundation and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in a novel study of the ancient practice that uses wireless health sensors to collect physiological data from meditators.

Half of 10 popular reports that rank hospitals on quality earned poor grades in an evaluation of their scoring methods.

The American Heart Association (AHA) will present 20 late-breaking clinical trials and 20 clinical science-special reports at its scientific sessions in Dallas. The conference runs Nov. 16-20.