U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, issued a rare national advisory Dec. 18 deeming youth e-cigarette use an “epidemic” in the country.

A U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled on Dec. 14 the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, a decision that could throw the American healthcare system into turmoil.

The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) market is projected to grow to $4.3 billion by 2028, with compound annual growth of 4.1 percent, according to a new report from GlobalData.

Colorado residents who live in close proximity to oil and natural gas extraction sites might experience poorer cardiovascular health because of it, according to work published Dec. 6 in Environmental Research.

Medtronic has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) a total of $50.9 million to settle three claims against Covidien and ev3, two companies Medtronic acquired in 2015.

A cardiologist based in Elko, Nevada, pleaded guilty Nov. 26 to prescribing two highly addictive drugs—oxycodone and hydrocodone—to patients over a five-month period without legitimate medical reasons, U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson announced.

Hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis (DUA-IE) increased 12-fold in North Carolina in one decade, according to a new study, and nearly half of all IE valve surgeries from late 2016 through mid-2017 were performed in patients with DUA-IE.

A hospital’s suggestion that a Michigan woman raise $10,000 before being considered for a heart transplant fueled outrage last month, but that situation isn’t all that uncommon, according to a Dec. 5 story from Kaiser Health News.