Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

Videos | EP Lab

VIDEO: Cryoballoon Ablation Best Practice Guidelines

Wilber Su, M.D., chief of cardiac electrophysiology, Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, and clinical associate ...

November 15, 2018

News | Cardiac Diagnostics

HHS Releases Second Edition of Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

November 14, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the second edition of the Physical ...

November 14, 2018

Videos | Artificial Intelligence

VIDEO: Use of Artificial Intelligence To Speed Cardiac Clinical Research

James Januzzi, M.D., Hutter Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and a cardiologist at Mass General Hospital ...

November 14, 2018

Videos | Computed Tomography (CT)

VIDEO: New Cholesterol Guidelines Support CT Calcium Scoring for Risk Assessment

Matthew Budoff, M.D., professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, spoke at the 2018 American Heart ...

November 14, 2018

Feature | Cardiac Diagnostics

ACC and AHA Release Updated Cholesterol Guidelines for 2018

November 13, 2018 — New cholesterol guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of ...

November 13, 2018

Videos | Pharmaceuticals

VIDEO: REDUCE-IT Trial Shows New Therapy Option for Patients With Uncontrolled Triglycerides

Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., executive director of the interventional cardiovascular program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...

November 13, 2018

News | Pharmaceuticals

Vascepa and Statins Significantly Reduce Cardiovascular Events

November 13, 2018 — A study in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine¹ shows that a particular ...

November 13, 2018

News | Hypertension

Hypertensive Crisis Five Times More Likely Among Blacks

November 13, 2018 — Black adults experience dangerous spikes in high blood pressure, called a hypertensive crisis, at a ...

November 13, 2018

Vascade MVP Reduces Time to Ambulation Follow EP Procedures

News | Vascular Closure Devices

Ambulation Time Following EP Procedures Decreased With Vascular Closure Device

November 12, 2018 — The Vascade MVP vascular closure system met its endpoints compared to manual compression in a ...

November 11, 2018

News | Artificial Intelligence

AI Algorithm Outperforms Most Cardiologists in Heart Murmur Detection

November 12, 2018 — At the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2018, Nov. 10-12 in Chicago, Eko ...

November 11, 2018

Russel Pate, Ph.D., Univerity Of South Carolina, chair of the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance. #AHA18

Feature | AHA

American Heart Association 2018 Late-breaking Trials

November 7, 2018 — Here is a list of some of the key clinical trial presentations at the 2018 American Heart Association ...

November 20, 2018

Videos | Hypertension

VIDEO: Reducing Hypertension Among African-Americans

Kim Allan Williams, Sr., M.D., chief of the Division of Cardiology and the James B. Herrick Professor at Rush University ...

November 07, 2018

News | Heart Failure

EMPRISE Study Shows Empagliflozin Reduces Heart Failure Hospitalization

November 6, 2018 – Initial results from the real-world EMPagliflozin compaRative effectIveness and SafEty (EMPRISE) ...

November 07, 2018