CT utilization in the emergency department (ED) has increased significantly in the last few decades, a fact often cited as one of the major reasons healthcare costs and radiation exposure are on the rise. So what can be done to reverse that trend?

As life expectancy continues to expand for cancer patients, clinicians are increasingly dealing with oncological complications like cardiotoxicity, according to a medical team in the Netherlands—and those doctors are met with a paucity of research on the topic.

A positive echocardiogram (ECG) stress test can predict not just cardiovascular mortality but also death due to cancer, a team of Italian researchers reported this week in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Even with criteria modified for athletes, National Basketball Association (NBA) players are more likely than other athlete groups to have abnormal electrocardiographic (ECG) findings, according to a report in JAMA Cardiology.

Digisonics and Medis have partnered to provide a comprehensive single system solution that adds cardiac MR to Digisonics congenital Echo and Cath system. 

NEW YORK, October 4, 2017 — Peerbridge Health Inc., a Health IT company, announced today that its first product, The Peerbridge Cor™ System—a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor—has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Despite many physicians’ reticence to recommend annual electrocardiograms as part of a yearly physical, a study conducted in Canada proved that more than one in five annual health exams lead to one.