May 5, 2017 — Northwell Health recently announced that Cindy Grines, M.D., one of the nation’s pre-eminent cardiologists ...

A study of how policies restricting pharmaceutical promotion to physicians affect medication prescribing found physicians in academic medical centers (AMCs) prescribed fewer of the promoted drugs, and more non-promoted drugs in the same drug classes, following policy changes to restrict marketing activities at those medical centers. The analysis encompassed 16.1 million prescriptions; while the decline observed was modest in terms of percentage, proportionally small changes can represent thousands of prescriptions.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved the American Health Care Act, the legislation designed by House Republican leadership and backed by President Donald Trump to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

American Regent, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, announced that the first patient has been enrolled into the phase 3 clinical trial, HEART-FID. This double-blind, multicenter, prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study will assess the efficacy and safety of iron therapy using intravenous (IV) ferric carboxymaltose (FCM), relative to placebo, in the treatment of patients with heart failure, iron deficiency and a reduced ejection fraction.

May 3, 2017 — A new study published in The Anatomical Record finds that peripheral arteries, easily accessible by ...

Acutus Medical recently announced that enrollment has been completed in its pivotal Utilizing Novel Dipole Density Capabilities to Objectively Visualize the Etiology of Rhythms in Atrial Fibrillation (UNCOVER AF) study. The study is evaluating the AcQMap High Resolution Imaging and Mapping System in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) in Europe and Canada.