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Physicians with the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David’s Medical Center are among the first in the world to participate in a clinical trial to evaluate a new intracardiac echocardiography catheter. Andrea Natale, M.D.,...

More than a decade ago, atrial fibrillation (AFib) was a little-known condition. After creating Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, patient advocacy organization StopAfib.org worked with medical society partners to get the U.S. Senate to...

  A new study1 presented at this year’s European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress shows that BIOTRONIK’s exclusive Closed Loop Stimulation (CLS) helps reduce unexplained fainting in patients with recurrent episodes due to skipped...

Premiere cardiovascular conference is now scheduled for May 2021 The American College of Cardiology’s 70th Annual Scientific Session in Atlanta will now take place May 15-17, 2021. The new dates are two months later than the original March...

IMPACT-AFib trial presented in a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress 2020 An educational mailing for atrial fibrillation patients and their clinicians did not increase uptake of stroke prevention drugs, according to results of the IMPACT-AFib...

BRACE CORONA trial presented in a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress 2020 Heart patients hospitalized with COVID-19 can safely continue taking angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), according...

Fainting affects one in two people during their lifetime. Those with recurrent episodes are often afraid to socialize or go to work. Researchers now report the first effective therapy. The late-breaking research is presented at ESC Congress...

Pro, college, and high school athletes are seeing increasing numbers of COVID-19 infection and potential heart complications that could be career-ending. Ambulatory cardiac monitoring provider InfoBionic says simple and effective remote...

Cardiothoracic surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), part of Allegheny Health Network (AHN), are joining biomedical engineers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a new heart monitoring device designed to serve as an...