Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the ...

ACC's October Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting was rich with strategic dialogue and forward-looking initiatives that reflect our shared commitment to advancing cardiovascular care and strengthening the ...

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle highlights several important studies presented at the recent American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. The OCEAN Trial on antithrombotic and stroke prevention in ...

Semaglutide, a medication initially developed for type 2 diabetes and obesity, significantly improves symptoms in men and women with a common type of heart failure that has had few therapeutic options ...

The proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) introduces a new, ongoing process described as the "efficiency adjustment." As not all codes in the Medicare PFS are revalued every year, the ...

Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, breads, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, including hypertension, cancer, ...

The ACC is excited to announce that two of its JACC Journals – JACC: Asia and JACC: Advances – will receive an official Impact Factor, with the first rankings being issued in June 2026 as part of the ...

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at the social drivers behind the rise in heart disease mortality in California. He then explores the prevalence of preexisting cardiometabolic comorbidities and ...

Findings from the PREVUE-VALVE study presented at TCT 2025 shed light on the prevalence of valvular heart disease (VHD) and its subtypes among older Americans, as well as the influence of age, sex, ...

In this episode, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, and Leslie L. Davis, NP, PhD, FACC, discuss the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of HF and where to consider newer treatments with ...

Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) with use of the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve system was successful in treating mitral valve disease due to mitral annulus calcification (MAC), and ...

The 2023 European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) hypertension guidelines both emphasize proper blood pressure (BP) ...