About Cardio News

Cardio News

Cardio News — the cardiological trade newspaper — is the German-language specialist paper for heart medicine, published nine times a year in newspaper format by Springer Medizin. Issued by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie – Herz- und Kreislaufforschung (DGK, German Cardiac Society) as its official organ since its first issue in 1998, Cardio News bridges science and practice: "schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis und versteht sich als Diskussions- und Kommunikationsforum" — with expert commentaries and practical tips. With 17,339 copies sold (IVW Q2/2024) from a 27,000-copy print run, it reaches the cardiologists in clinic and practice, the cardiac surgeons, the internists, and the neighboring disciplines.

Overview

The newspaper serves the cardiovascular-medicine community: the cardiologists in clinic and practice, the cardiac and thoracic surgeons, the internists, the general practitioners with a heart/circulation focus, the diabetologists, the neurologists with a stroke focus, the nephrologists, and the sports-medicine physicians. The editorial program delivers compact, current information from all areas of cardiology and the neighboring fields of internal medicine: the congress news, the health-policy questions, and the international specialist literature — commented in a practice-relevant way.

The newspaper format — the broadsheet trade paper — distinguishes Cardio News from the journals: the quick reading, the news character, the discussion forum. The sections — Cardio Aktuell (the current: national and international congress news, health-policy issues, the international literature's news, practice-relevantly commented) and the further rubrics — structure the nine annual issues. The DGK — the German Cardiac Society — deserves its institutional telling. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie – Herz- und Kreislaufforschung e.V. — the cardiologists' scientific society — organizes the Jahrestagung (the annual meeting, one of Europe's largest cardiology congresses), publishes the guidelines, and represents the specialty: the research, the training, the policy. Cardio News — the society's official organ — is the members' newspaper: the congress reports, the guideline summaries, the society's announcements reaching the 17,339 sold copies' readers. The cooperation partners' network — the ALKK's hospital cardiologists, the BNK's office-based cardiologists, the DGTHG's surgeons, the DGPK's pediatric cardiologists, the DGPR's prevention specialists, the DSG's stroke neurologists — makes the newspaper the cardiovascular community's joint platform: the heart medicine's specialties united in one forum.

History

The cardiology's revolution — the newspaper's 1998-to-present arc — deserves its telling. The interventional cardiology — the stents, the TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), the MitraClip, the ablations — transformed the heart medicine: the catheter replacing the scalpel, the 90-year-olds treated. The heart-failure therapies — the ARNI, the SGLT2 inhibitors, the devices — extended the lives. The prevention — the lipids, the blood pressure, the lifestyle — shifted the focus upstream. The imaging — the echo, the CT, the MRI — made the heart visible. Cardio News' 27 years — the nine annual issues — documented the revolution for the practitioners: the trial results explained, the techniques taught, the guidelines implemented — the science's bridge to the practice, issue by issue. The cardiology's transformation — the drug-eluting stents, the TAVI, the ablation techniques, the heart-failure therapies — filled the newspaper's pages: the science translated for the practice, the congresses reported, the guidelines explained. The cooperation partners — the ALKK (leading hospital cardiologists), the BNK (office-based cardiologists), the DGTHG (thoracic, cardiac, and vascular surgery), the DGPK (pediatric cardiology), the DGPR (prevention and rehabilitation), the DSG (stroke society) — joined the imprint: the cardiovascular community's joint forum.

The circulation development — the 27,000-copy print run from January 2024, the 17,339 sold (IVW Q2/2024) — documents the reach: the German-speaking cardiology's core readership. The digital extension — the online availability (free for DGK members), the app.cardionews.de — carries the newspaper into the digital: the members' free access, the mobile reading. The editor-in-chief — Ulrike Fortmüller — carries the editorial.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the cardiology's year. The congress calendar — the newspaper's news engine — deserves its telling. The DGK Jahrestagung — the German Cardiac Society's annual meeting in Mannheim — is the German-speaking cardiology's home congress: the late-breaking trials, the guideline sessions, the industry exhibition. The ESC Congress — the European Society of Cardiology's annual — is the world's largest cardiology gathering: the hot lines, the global trials. The AHA Scientific Sessions — the American — complete the big three. Cardio News' Cardio Aktuell — the congress reporting — carries the news to the practitioners who couldn't attend: the trial results summarized, the experts commenting, the practice implications drawn. The 2026 issue dates — February 2, March 1, March 28, May 10, June 21, August 23, September 20, October 25, December 13 (2024's schedule, per the media data) — time the newspaper to the congress year: the issues following the meetings, the news fresh. The health-policy coverage — the reimbursement, the structures, the quality — addresses the cardiologists' framework: the clinic and practice economics. The literature coverage — the international specialist literature's news, practice-relevantly commented — translates the studies: the experts' commentaries, the practical tips.

The neighboring disciplines — the diabetology (the cardiometabolic), the neurology (the stroke), the nephrology (the cardiorenal), the sports medicine — reflect the cardiology's interfaces: the heart's connections. The practical-tips character — the forum's service dimension — deserves its closing note. The expert commentaries — the specialists interpreting the trials for the practice — and the practical tips — the directly implementable — make Cardio News the working cardiologist's tool: the new guideline's algorithm, the difficult case's approach, the reimbursement's rule. The newspaper format — the quick skimming, the marked articles — suits the clinic's pace: the cardiologist reading between the cases. The DGK members' free online access — the society's service — extends the print: the archive searchable, the issues mobile. As the cardiology's trade newspaper — the DGK's official organ since 1998 — Cardio News remains the heart medicine's discussion forum: the science and the practice, the experts and the practitioners — nine times a year in the newspaper format.

Organization and Ownership

Cardio News is published by the Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, Am Forsthaus Gravenbruch 5, 63263 Neu-Isenburg. The Herausgeber (publisher) is the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie – Herz- und Kreislaufforschung e.V. (DGK) — the German Cardiac Society — as whose official organ the newspaper functions. The editor-in-chief is Ulrike Fortmüller. The cooperation partners — ALKK, BNK, DGTHG, DGPK, DGPR, DSG — are named in the imprint. The ISSN 1437-1073 marks the bibliographic identity.

The Springer Medizin portfolio — the medical-publishing context — deserves its telling. The Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH — the Neu-Isenburg medical publisher within the Springer Nature group — publishes the German medical trade press: the Ärzte Zeitung (the physicians' newspaper), the specialist journals (Die Kardiologie, Herz, CardioVasc, Clinical Research in Cardiology), and the trade newspapers like Cardio News. The portfolio's logic — the journals for the science (the peer-reviewed), the newspapers for the news (the forum) — positions Cardio News: the cardiology's news forum alongside the DGK's scientific journals. The media data — the 2026 rate card with the nine issue dates, the inserts and prices, the digital advertising formats, the corporate publishing, the job advertisements — documents the B2B business: the pharmaceutical and device companies' marketing reaching the 27,000-copy print run's readers. The medbee app — the media data's digital mention — extends the advertising into the mobile. The online availability — free for DGK members — extends the reach. Detailed revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The newspaper's digital home is within springermedizin.de — the Springer Medizin portal — plus the dedicated app.cardionews.de. The online availability — free for DGK members — gives the society's members the digital reading: the current issues, the archive. The 2026 media data — the aerztezeitung.de PDF — documents the advertising offers: the nine 2026 issue dates (February through December), the inserts, the digital formats, the corporate publishing, the job ads. The digital strategy follows the medical-press logic: the print newspaper for the compact current reading — nine issues a year — the digital for the members' access and the archive.

As the cardiology's trade newspaper — since 1998, the DGK's official organ, published by Springer Medizin — Cardio News remains the heart doctors' forum: the bridge between science and practice — nine times a year in newspaper format, continuously online.