Heart Failure
October 20, 2025
Don’t Blame Your Heart for Heart Failure October 20, 2025
Perhaps the biggest cardiology story of the year, an entire issue of JACC now hypothesizes that heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) might actually be caused by visceral fat tissue that triggers cardiac weakening through adipokine signaling. The new unifying adiposity framework now proposes that visceral fat expansion causes secretion of an altered adipokine […]
Cardiology Business
October 16, 2025
MedAxiom Report: Cardiologist Compensation Soars, Patient Access Struggles October 16, 2025
Good news and bad news from MedAxiom’s latest cardiology compensation survey. The good news? Cardiologist median compensation reached new record highs last year. The bad news? Patient access deteriorated while the number of patients physicians had to manage swelled. The 2025 survey findings aggregated data across cardiology, cardiac surgery, and vascular surgery specialties, examining compensation […]
Heart Failure
October 13, 2025
Specialist Care Can Improve HF Outcomes Across the Board October 13, 2025
A recent study out of the U.K. suggests that multidisciplinary team management could significantly reduce death or rehospitalization risk for HF patients across the LVEF spectrum. Based in a single U.K. county, the Buckinghamshire analysis examined 2.1k patients hospitalized for acute heart failure who received either specialist care or standard care over a 618-day follow-up […]