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This channel contains news about the American College of Cardiology (ACC), including coverage of its annual meeting and links to recently released practice guidelines. The ACC is a leading resource for cardiology professionals, including all its subspecialties.
Medical video game company Level Ex expanded into cardiology with the launch of Cardio Ex. It offers clinical video game scenarios that aid in cognitive, spatial-reasoning and decision-making skills in the cath lab.
Technology | Cardiovascular Education | March 26, 2019
March 26, 2019 — Level Ex, creators of medical video games for physicians, expanded into cardiology with the launch of...
Videos | Cardiovascular Business | March 26, 2019
William Pinsky, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist and CEO of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (...
News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | March 25, 2019
March 25, 2019 — Patients who stopped taking aspirin one month after receiving a stent in the heart’s arteries but...
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An example of the new generation of inexpensive, wearable cardiac monitors that are seeing increased usage. This is the Cardiac Insight Cardea Solo device. After the monitoring period is over, the wearable patch is torn open to retrieve a data pod that is inserted into a reader to download the data. The software automatically creates reports based on the data, complete with waveforms for various cardiac measures.
Blog | Cardiac Diagnostics | May 10, 2018
The show floors at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting in March and at the Heart Rhythm Society (...
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News | Pharmaceuticals | March 25, 2019
March 25, 2019 — Phase 3 results from Study 2, also known as CLEAR WISDOM, of bempedoic acid were recently presented at...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019 — Severely ill patients with advanced heart failure who received the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist...
Videos | Cardio-oncology | March 22, 2019
Magid Awadalla, MBBS, is an advanced cardiac imaging research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been...
News | Heart Valve Technology | March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019 — Among patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic...
Videos | Nuclear Imaging | March 22, 2019
Raza Alvi, M.D., a research fellow in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been involved in a study of a...
At #ACC.19, Siemens unveiled a version of its go.Top platform optimized for cardiovascular imaging. The newly packaged scanner can generate the data needed to do CT-based FFR (fractional flow reserve). Photo by Greg Freiherr
Feature | Cardiac Imaging | March 22, 2019 | By Greg Freiherr
Reflecting a trend toward the increased use of computed tomography (CT) in cardiology, Siemens Healthineers launched a...
Videos | EP Lab | March 21, 2019
Khaldoun Tarakji, M.D., MPH, associate section head, section of electrophysiology and pacing in the Robert and Suzanne...
Videos | Atrial Fibrillation | March 21, 2019
Christine Albert, M.D., MPH, director of the Center for Arrhythmia Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and...
News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | March 21, 2019
March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a...
News | EP Lab | March 20, 2019
March 20, 2019 – Results from the landmark Worldwide Randomized Antibiotic Envelope Infection Prevention Trial (WRAP-IT...
News | FFR Technologies | March 20, 2019
March 20, 2019 — At the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) annual meeting, March 16-18 in New Orleans, Philips...
News | Blood Testing | March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019 — Prevencio Inc. announced data confirming the high accuracy of its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven...
