Cardiac Imaging January 22, 2026
A recent JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions analysis of 17 randomized trials suggests that intravascular cardiac imaging (intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography) significantly reduces major cardiac events compared with angiography alone when guiding PCI with drug-eluting stents. To help clarify intravascular imaging’s benefits, researchers synthesized data from 17 RCTs of drug-eluting stent PCIs for complex lesions, […]
Cardiology Business January 15, 2026
Following a six-month antitrust fight, Edwards Lifesciences has been forced to walk away from its $945M attempt to buy fledgling valve developer JenaValve after a U.S. district court ruled in favor of the FTC’s decision to block the move. The FTC’s big issue didn’t just start Edwards acquiring JenaValve, rather it was the short timespan […]
Cardiogenetics January 12, 2026
We already know that loss or mutation in genes can lead to increased cardiovascular risk or even cause some diseases, but what about losing a whole chromosome? New research in JACC suggests that men who lose pieces of their Y chromosome as they age could be at greater risk of heart attacks. Researchers measured the […]