Malpractice litigation is a risk that’s inherent to acute stroke care, Mount Sinai researchers reported in Stroke this month—and while just over half of cases get resolved, the remainder can cost medical centers millions in payouts.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 3435 this month, CNN reported—a law that will require insurance companies to cover all costs of EpiPen injections for anyone under 18 years old.

CMS this month announced that, after continued analysis of Abiomed’s Impella RP system, it will no longer be cutting its reimbursement rate for the heart pump in October.

Volunteers in Bend, Ore., are advocating for more widespread “Stop the Bleed” training after back-to-back mass shootings earlier this month left 31 dead, local paper the Bulletin reported August 11.

Corindus Vascular Robotics on August 8 announced it had entered a definitive merger agreement with Siemens Healthineers, which will reportedly acquire Corindus for a price of $1.1 billion.

A court case from half a decade ago reemerged this month after Kentucky-based cardiologists Satyabrata Chatterjee and Ashwini Anand filed a lawsuit against CBS, which featured their case in an August 2018 episode of “Whistleblower."

The FDA has granted B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. breakthrough device designation for its SeQuent Please ReX drug-coated PTCA balloon catheter, the company announced August 1.

The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, topped this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s list of the best hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery in the country, published at the end of July.