Adults living with congenital heart disease (CHD) may have a significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than people in the general population.

Recent research published in The American Journal of Cardiology and led by Stephen Crouse, Ph.D., is shedding light on the healthy cardiac parameters and blood pressure levels of collegiate American-style football (ASF) athletes.

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis introduced a new, comprehensive Mobile Stroke Unit, capable of conducting and producing advanced quality imaging for stroke diagnosis and noninvasive computed tomography (CT)-angiography with a Siemens Somatom Scope CT scanner.

March 22, 2016 — Critical Diagnostics announced that it entered into a license agreement for the exclusive worldwide rights to the use of the biomarker soluble neprilysin (sNEP) in the diagnosis and monitoring of heart failure patients. Health Sciences Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP) of Barcelona Spain is the licensor.

Electrophysiology company Acutus Medical announced that it has closed a $75 million Series C financing.

3M Littmann Stethoscopes introduced the new Cardiology IV stethoscope, engineered to help clinicians better perceive hard-to-hear sounds in the body.

PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute enrolled the first patient in Pennsylvania into the TOBA II clinical on Oct. 19, 2015.


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