The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a noninvasive add-on feature for a test that detects heart patterns in people with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The new tool in the Corvista-PH test estimates the likelihood of elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), a key marker of heart failure. The…

When I was recently discharged from the hospital following a stint with COVID-19 and norovirus, my team automatically scheduled me for an in-person follow-up. As the date in July approached, I double-checked the appointments in my online portal and noted a few things. First, I had been scheduled for…

There’s a sentiment that a book finds you at the right time in your life. Sometimes, when you have a chronic illness like pulmonary hypertension (PH), that book finds you when you’re sitting on a bench outside of a hospital. Recently, that book for me was “Famesick,”…