There is ample emerging evidence that suggests that not only the quantity but also the quality and food sources of macronutrients play an important role in CVD. However, limited studies have examined the association of meal timing of different quality of macronutrients with CVD risk.

New guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) outline recommendations for doctors to help their patients avoid another stroke.

The so-called DASH diet, a meal plan designed to lower blood pressure, reduces heart damage and stress that often lead to heart disease, according to a study published Monday by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Using the validated data collected including variables like body mass index and high blood pressure, the algorithm was 80 per cent accurate in predicting who was at risk of type 2 diabetes in the population over several years.

The American Medical Association on Thursday launched an initiative to standardize blood pressure measurement training, hoping that its virtual courses will help future physicians accurately take patient readings.

It's known that genetics and lifestyle can affect your heart health. Now, researchers say, your birth order and family size may also have an impact.

Varian announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its cardiac radioablation (CRA) system.

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has issued a statement in support of new bipartisan legislation that would simplify the prior authorization process for patients on Medicare Advantage plans.

Individuals with a history of a neurological disorder prior to COVID-19 infection experienced an increased likelihood of acute care hospital re-encounters at both 30 days and 4 months, according to findings published in GeroScience.

PET imaging can help Hodgkin lymphoma patients avoid radiotherapy while still experiencing “excellent” outcomes, according to research set to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting.

Dawson is among what one doctor called "waves and waves" of "long-haul" covid patients who remain sick long after retesting negative for the virus. A significant percentage are suffering from syndromes that few doctors understand or treat. In fact, a yearlong wait to see a specialist for these syndromes was common even before the ranks of patients were swelled by post-covid newcomers. For some, the consequences are life altering.

The first drug to target KRAS mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The blood-brain barrier is impermeable to cholesterol, yet high blood cholesterol is associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. However, the underlying mechanisms mediating this relationship are poorly understood. A study published in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Vijay Varma and colleagues at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, in Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that disturbances in the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids (called cholesterol catabolism) may play a role in the development of dementia.

 Adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder are more likely to suffer a stroke later in life compared with those who do not have the mental health disorder, an analysis published Thursday by the journal Stroke found.

The FDA approved piflufolastat F 18 injection, a radioactive diagnostic agent designed to identify suspected metastasis or recurrence of prostate cancer, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

FDG-PET/MRI combined with ultrasound could reduce the need for invasive biopsy to confirm suspicious findings in women with newly diagnosed metastatic breast cancer, according to a study by German researchers published May 20 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Brains devastated by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be “rejuvenated” by restoring the expression of a microRNA molecule, report scientists based at the Leuven Brain Institute and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN). The molecule, miR-132, is one of the most consistently downregulated microRNAs in AD. According to the scientists, miR-132 loss in AD inhibits the generation of new neurons at the hippocampus, where memories are initially formed. The scientists added, however, that miR-132 supplementation can facilitate the generation of new neurons, and thereby alleviate memory deficits in AD.

History of a head injury with loss of consciousness led to a higher prevalence of disability later in life among individuals aged 40 years and older, according to a cross-sectional analysis published in Neurology.

Researchers have combined functional MRI with machine learning to guide deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

The system hit 88% accuracy at optimizing stimulation settings, as confirmed by brain-response patterns on the neuroimaging as well as visibly observable symptom improvement in two separate sets of patients.

Previous research has suggested that music in general may be able to improve the quality of life of older adults with dementia.

A new study from Pitt seeks to identify the benefits of active participation in music versus passive participation, that is, listening to music. It is a meta-analysis of 21 previous studies involving 1,472 individuals.

Primary care providers during the pandemic are facing an increased number of challenges that are opening opportunities for competitors. But experts say patients need to be wary of what those competitors offer.

The steep rise in rural hospital closures over the past decade is hurting many emergency medical service providers, worrying public experts tracking response times.

The average length of ambulance trips increased by 22% among municipally-run, EMS agencies and 10% among privately-owned providers between 2012 and 2018 in locations where a recent rural hospital closure took place, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Although the FDA approved the amyloid PET scan that she received in 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided the following year not to cover these scans except in the case of specialized research studies or in circumstances in which the scans can be used to “exclude” Alzheimer’s disease in a “narrowly defined and clinically difficult differential diagnoses.”

President Joe Biden's proposed budget requests a 23% funding increase for HHS and urges Congress to take action on high drug costs while expanding and improving health coverage.

The current hospital quality programs and measures were not designed to contend with pandemics or public health emergencies of the magnitude we are experiencing. Nor are they equipped to manage the degree of aberration we are encountering in the underlying data. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the health care system in ways that have affected patient-, provider-, and hospital-level decisions, behavior, and performance. This presents a significant problem to patients, hospitals, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) alike—all of whom must rely on credible and consistent measures of quality.

The Biden administration delayed part of a Trump-era rule requiring them to include the discounts they offer to patients when calculating the "best price" for drugs under Medicaid's drug rebate program, according to a proposed rule on Wednesday.

Drugmakers were supposed to start reporting multiple best prices beginning Jan. 1, but CMS delayed the requirements until July 1, 2022. The agency said the additional time would allow the healthcare industry to address concerns over patient access and quality of care before the new requirements take effect.

The nearly 50 teaching hospitals listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the formula CMS used to calculate the payments was "arbitrary and capricious" because it resulted in hospitals being paid less if they hosted fellows above a specific cap. The judge agreed that the formula ran contrary to the Medicare statute and directed CMS to recalculate the direct graduate medical education payments it owes the plaintiff hospitals.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, who worked for the Obama administration and helped implement the Affordable Care Act, will oversee the agency's efforts to expand the healthcare law, set the overall policy agenda for Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).