Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the ...

People taking an oral formulation of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist semaglutide were 14% less likely than those taking a placebo to experience cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke ...

Chronic consumption of high levels of caffeine a day can lead to an increase in high heart rate and blood pressure that persists after resting from a step test, increasing the risk of cardiovascular ...

Global death counts due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) increased from 12.4 million in 1990 to 19.8 million in 2022, reflecting global population growth and aging and the contributions from ...

In this episode, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, and Leslie L. Davis, NP, PhD, FACC, discuss the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of HF and where to consider newer treatments with ...

The federal government shut down on Oct. 1 as lawmakers failed to reach a funding agreement. According to contingency plans from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), operations such ...

Semaglutide, the popular anti-obesity medication originally developed to treat diabetes, continues to show cardiovascular benefits beyond weight loss, including reducing risk of death, reducing ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System for isolation of pulmonary veins in the treatment of drug-refractory, recurrent, symptomatic, ...

Mavacamten did not significantly improve exercise capacity as assessed by peak oxygen uptake or improve patient-reported health status compared with placebo in patients with symptomatic nonobstructive ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a change in methodology to indirect practice expense (PE) payment in the proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which ...

Interventional cardiology will be in the spotlight during TCT 2025 in San Francisco and amongst the Featured Clinical Research are presentations looking at outcomes in patients following coronary ...

A significant prevalence of elevated blood pressure (BP) measurements was found among young athletes during community heart screenings, according to research presented during ACC's Care of the ...