Shockwave Medical recently announced two milestones for its Lithoplasty System for the treatment of calcified plaque in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). The first patient was enrolled in the global DISRUPT PAD III clinical trial at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and the first patient was treated in a commercial case in the United States, at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Pottstown, Pa.

Heart health in children will be the focus of three closely synergistic research projects and an integrated multidisciplinary training program, that are newly funded by a $3.7 million four-year grant led by Bradley S. Marino, M.D., MPP, MSC. Marino is a pediatric cardiologist from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and professor of pediatrics and medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

A 12-year-old boy at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, Italy, has become the world’s youngest patient to be bridged to a heart transplant with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart.

Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) unveiled the discussion draft of their own bill Thursday to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare, which overhauled and expanded health insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

Pacemakers and other cardiac devices can help solve forensic cases, according to a study presented at the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) EUROPACE - CARDIOSTIM 2017 conference, June 18-21 in Vienna, Austria. Devices revealed the time and cause of death in some cases where autopsy failed to do so.

Mount Sinai Heart and BioImage-2 LLC recently announced the start of the BioImage-2 study investigating the progression of vascular atherosclerotic plaque in patients who previously participated in the BioImage study.