MedAxiom, the premier source for cardiovascular organizational performance solutions, has released its 2025 Cardiovascular Provider Compensation and Production Survey report that includes data from the largest number of programs since its debut. With 232 cardiovascular programs submitting 2024 data, MedAxiom’s 13th annual survey saw a 15% increase in program participation and a 21% increase in cardiovascular providers represented. The survey is powered by MedAxcess, the cardiovascular industry’s leading business intelligence application and proprietary database. 

Consumers are more likely to choose a higher-priced item when it’s correlated with messages that emphasize an increase in the product’s positive attributes—rather than a reduction in its negative ones.

Poorer health is linked to a higher proportion of votes for the populist right wing political party, Reform UK, indicates an analysis of the 2024 general election voting patterns in England, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. The findings should prompt policy-makers of all political stripes to step up efforts to improve public health and tackle health inequalities, suggest the researchers.

Employing algorithm-fueled generative art, So-Yeon Yoon, professor of human centered design at Cornell University, found that the installation in a virtual store enhanced perceptions of exclusivity and aesthetic pleasure for both mass-market and luxury retailers.