Louisiana consistently ranks in the lower quartile for overall health care in the nation, and as a future cardiologist, these statistics alarm me. Whether addressing health literacy, medication adherence, or encouraging lifestyle modification through diet and exercise, something needed to change. The idea of Teach a Girl: Blood Pressure (TAG:BP), which aims to educate girls ages 9 to 11…
Elizabeth A. Jackson, MD, FACC
Several abstracts featuring data from NCDR’s family of registries – including the CathPCI Registry, the SVS VQI Registry (formerly known as the PVI Registry) and…
Although atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter (AFib/AFL) are common manifestations of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), a post hoc analysis of the ATTR-ACT study, published April 30 in…
Dive into the Heart of ACC.24’s Heart Failure and Transplant Highlights! In this podcast, Drs. Maya Guglin, Shelley Hall, Onyedika Ilonze, and Kazuhiko Kido dissect…
NCD Academy is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between major actors in global health to equip frontline health workers with integrated, mobile-first education on NCD care as…
Sherrie R. Webb, PA-C
Join ACC’s Health Equity Task Force and Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (HEDI) team for the next installment of the ACC Health Equity Webinar Series,…
Thomas C. Crawford, MD, FACC
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on May 1 that the Apple Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) History Feature now qualifies as a Medical Device…
