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.

Chris Semsarian, PhD, MPH, has been announced as the newest editor-in-chief of the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.

Maquet and Datascope issued a nationwide recall of 22,853 intra-aortic balloon pumps July 23 following reports of five patient deaths and numerous battery failures.