Advocates say payers' push for single first-line imaging tests for all patients isn't backed by evidence and may cause harm.

Choosing not to be vaccinated, the groups emphasized, puts cardiovascular patients at risk.

"This is a safe and affordable new data point that can clue us in about who might develop atrial fibrillation," one researcher said. 

North Billerica, Massachusetts-based Lantheus shared its forecast in a quarterly financial report published May 4. 

A large coalition, including several cardiology groups, is asking Congress to pass legislation that would help protect healthcare providers from the final rule's "arbitrary" Medicare cuts. 

The American Society of Echocardiography released the new recommendations to replace its 2007 edition.

Despite its diagnostic and prognostic value, speckle-tracking strain echocardiography is underused, some cardiac imagers say. What will it take for adoption to pick up?

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, together with eight other nuclear medicine and cardiology societies, have published a consensus document outlining the best practices for imaging and diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis.