June 23, 2022 — The COVID-19 vaccination is not associated with an increased risk of heart attack or stroke in patients with established cardiovascular disease, according to
June 23, 2022 — Medtronic, Inc. is recalling a single lot of HeartWare HVAD System batteries due to welding defects that allow separation of the two cell battery packs used to power the system. The welding defect may cause the battery to malfunction and no longer provide power or prevent the battery from holding a full charge or properly recharging.
June 22, 2022 — Recommendations on how to use gene testing to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes and enable safe exercise are published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1
June 22, 2022 — Dr. Thomas Forbes, an interventional cardiologist, has joined Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital as its chief of pediatric cardiac services. Forbes, previously at Detroit Medical Center in Michigan, is leading an expanding roster of cardiac specialists as the Hollywood-based children’s facility significantly increases its size and capabilities while it adds four floors to the existing hospital building.
June 21, 2022 — Renibus Therapeutics (“Renibus”), a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on the prevention and treatment of cardio-renal diseases, today announced that its leadclinical candidate, RBT-1, met the primary endpoint of increasing the expression of biomarkers of cytoprotective preconditioning in a pre-specified interim Phase 2 data analysis.
June 20, 2022— Marc Chatzky may not feel like a cardiac pioneer, but he is, at least in South Florida. The Deerfield Beach resident was the first to have a defective pulmonary valve replaced without open-heart surgery, instead using a minimally-invasive transcatheter procedure and the recently-approved Harmony™ valve.
