Self-employed cardiologists consistently outearn their employed counterparts, according to Medscape's physician salary explorer.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is celebrating the fifth anniversary of a $50 million gift, the then largest gift in the health system's history which established the Smidt Heart Institute, according to a March 12 report from the Beverly Hills Courier.

Lafayette, La., is the best paying city for cardiologists of any experience level regardless of practice setting, paying an average salary of $613,553, according to the Medscape Salary Explorer.

The American College of Cardiology has awarded its annual Bernadine Healy Leadership in Women's Cardiovascular Disease award to Karol Watson, MD, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. 

Life sciences company Merck has seen an improvement in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients using its new signaling inhibitor sotatercept in a phase three clinical trial. 

California has the most practicing cardiologists of any state, according to data collected in January 2023 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento has become the first hospital in the region to perform the transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure.

B. Hadley Wilson, MD, an interventional cardiologist, began his one-year term as president of the American College of Cardiology. 

Cardiology could be the next big growth opportunity for ASCs. 

Here are five cardiovascular ambulatory surgery centers to know:

Cleveland Clinic has been named the best cardiology hospital in the world for 2023 by Newsweek in collaboration with consumer data company Statista. 

From new cardiology ASCs to frequently prescribed medications, here are the most important ASC cardiology updates from February. 

Here are four new cardiology ASCs that were announced or opened this month:

The top coping mechanism for cardiologists dealing with burnout is exercise, according to a Feb. 24 report from Medscape that surveyed over 9,100 practicing physicians. 

Rancho Mirage (Calif.) Hospital, part of Eisenhower Health, is investing $156 million into the construction of a four-story cardiology ASC and an expansion of its cardiology pavilion, according to a Feb. 26 report from the Desert Sun. 

Nearly half of U.S. adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, according to 2022 data from Definitive Healthcare. The high prevalence of this disease has led to high prescription rates among physicians. 

Free physician Q&A platform TheMednet has added cardiology to its platform, its sixth area of practice available for medical experts and the physician community as a whole. 

Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Allegheny Health Network performed its 500th heart transplant at Allegheny General Hospital, led by Candice Lee, MD, and Manreet Kanwar, MD. 

Parkersburg (W.Va.) Cardiology Associates has added a cardiac MRI machine to its practice, according to a Feb. 13 report from NBC affiliate WTAP.

Athens (Ga.) Heart Center and surgeon Subodh Agrawal, MD, have been ordered by a state court jury to pay $4.36 million in medical malpractice damages following the 2017 death of a patient, according to a Feb. 14 report from the Athens Banner-Herald.