Researchers have identified five transthoracic echocardiographic measurements that independently predict heart failure in patients with stable CAD and combined them as an index that might be useful for risk stratification and serial observations.

Its been said that a picture is worth a thousand words; when it comes to the deployment of advanced visualization technology in cardiology, an image may be worth even more in referrals, according to practices that have adopted it.

Adding advanced visualization capabilities to a practice can not only increase diagnostic certainty for many studies, its application can speed the diagnostic ability of the interpreting physicianresulting in greater referrer and patient satisfaction as well as increased workflow throughput.

Vital Images' board of directors has approved a new share repurchase program, authorizing up to an additional one million shares of the advanced visualization software provider to be repurchased on the open market.

A compendium of the business intelligence required to launch a CCTA service

Senators Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Ark., and Representatives Lois Capps, D-Calif., and Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., introduced legislation this month that would expand access to screening and lifestyle counseling for low-income and uninsured women, including those who may have recently lost their jobs and health benefits.

An experimental therapy using gas-filled microspheres activated by transcranial Doppler ultrasound, in combination with the clot busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), is more effective than tPA alone for ischemic stroke treatment, according to new research presented this week at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in San Diego.

Vital Images, an advanced visualization and analysis company, has reported net losses for the fourth quarter and2008 fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31.