The authors assessed 17 popular energy drinks, sharing their analysis in Food and Chemical Toxicology. 

Intelerad Medical Systems has acquired Lumedx, an Oakland, California-based healthcare technology company focused on analytics and cardiovascular information systems. This is Intelerad’s third acquisition in the last seven months.

Compensation for cardiologists has been ample in recent years. Could the healthcare industry’s growing interest in value over volume lead to a change in that trend?

Casana, formerly known as Heart Health Intelligence, also named a new CEO. 

Shockwave Medical announced Tuesday, Feb. 16, that intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) has gained FDA approval for the treatment of severely calcified coronary artery disease.

The guidance, published in full in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, includes updates to previous CCTA recommendations and was designed to answer common questions.

The FDA categorized this as a Class I recall, which means it is an especially serious issue that can result in injury or death.  

"Screening for CAS in adults without symptoms does more harm than good, and we continue to recommend against it," one USPSTF representative said. 

Two specialists have shared their own perspective on the updated ACC/AHA guidelines in Circulation.

Abbott described the update as "critically important," and the American College of Cardiology expressed relief that some proposed changes did not actually end up happening.