Although a majority of medical experts recently polled believe young athletes should be screened for cardiac disease before participating in sports, less than half of providers in the U.S. say electrocardiograms (ECGs) should be included, according to an article published March 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The majority of their European counterparts, on the other hand, do favor ECGs as part of the process.

Hospitals appear to be more than willing to share price information with healthcare consumers, if the item of interest is a parking spot. But divulging costs on items such as an electrocardiogram (ECG) is another thing.

Magnetocardiography accurately diagnosed long QT syndrome (LQTS) in fetuses, according to a study published online Nov. 12 in Circulation.

An experimental cellphone app that transferred echocardiogram (ECG) images from emergency personnel to hospitals proved to be faster and more reliable than emailing images, according to an oral abstract presented May 17 at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research scientific sessions in Baltimore.

ASE members discuss recent changes to contrast enhanced stress echo.

PET with 11C-PIB provides a noninvasive method for visualizing amyloid deposits in the heart, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The researchers suggest that 11C-PIB eventually may be used in the clinical setting as both a diagnostic tool and a treatment follow-up method.

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and GE Healthcare have teamed to provide a cardiovascular ultrasound training event for healthcare providers caring for underserved populations in rural northwest India.