Novel Screening Approach Promising for Silent CAD More than 40% of healthy Swedish participants still had subclinical coronary artery disease Nov 16, 2020
Lung Ultrasound Beats X-Rays in COVID Pneumonia Screening Patients with negative scans typically go home, while positives head to CT Nov 01, 2020
'Drug-Based Therapy is Here to Stay' in Angioplasty for PAD TCT Connect studies report reassuring safety data, promise in challenging segments Oct 18, 2020
Is PCI the Answer to Vulnerable Plaques That Don't Limit Flow? Some success with BVS placement in PROSPECT ABSORB Oct 14, 2020
Look for Bone Mets at Soft Tissue Sarcoma Diagnosis Lung scan only would have missed 40% of all metastases, majority of bone disease, study finds Oct 12, 2020
Stress Tests: A Waning Practice Before Knee, Hip Replacement Yet one surprising group actually saw an increase Sep 30, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening Sep 15, 2020
Florida Surgeon Tries Again With Whistleblower Suit Against Hospital Seeks damages after dismissal, allegedly for refusing to keep all referrals in-network Sep 10, 2020
Bedside MRI Feasible in ICU, for COVID-19 Study showed abnormalities found without any complications from the device Sep 09, 2020
Angiography for Cardiac Arrest Survivors: No Need to Rush Findings from 1-year follow-up of the COACT trial Sep 02, 2020
Aspirin Alone Best Bet for Majority of Post-TAVR Patients Lessons from DAPT in PCI do not translate to TAVR, researchers find Aug 30, 2020
Thyroid Ultrasounds: How Often Unnecessary? Study compares use by specialists vs primary care docs Aug 12, 2020
ACC: Recovered LVEF Is Not Out of the HF Woods Guidance on treatment after "remission" from heart failure Aug 03, 2020
CT Useless for COVID-19 Diagnosis, Study Affirms Even AI couldn't tell flu pneumonia from COVID in chest scans Jul 12, 2020
Alzheimer's May Develop Differently in Women Brain changes appear years earlier in women than in men, imaging shows Jun 24, 2020
TEE-Related GI Injuries Commonplace During Structural Cardiac Interventions Even the most complex complications could be managed conservatively, however Jun 22, 2020
CT Angiography Helpful in Suspected Stable Angina, but Not Needed for All CTA better at detecting CAD than exercise stress tests, analysis suggests Jun 03, 2020
Add-On Tucatinib Ups Survival in Breast Cancer With Brain Mets TKI plus trastuzumab-capecitabine reduced risk of death by nearly half Jun 01, 2020
Hazy on Ground-Glass Opacities? Here's What They Are Frequent finding in COVID-19, but how disease-specific is it? May 29, 2020
Alzheimer’s Tau Tracer Wins Landmark Approval "Major advance" toward diagnosing Alzheimer's with brain imaging May 29, 2020
Asymptomatic Intracranial Stenosis: No Cause for Alarm Common finding on imaging not associated with worse prognosis May 26, 2020
Residual Shunt Size Matters After PFO Closure Incomplete seal was not uncommon in a cohort study May 11, 2020
Almost 60% of Chest X-Rays 'Normal' in COVID-19 Imaging study may be inadequate to diagnose COVID-19 in an ambulatory care setting, research suggests Apr 15, 2020
No DNA Damage Seen With Single Low-Dose CT Scan Some reassurance for annual lung cancer screening safety Mar 10, 2020
Out of the Basement: Early Results Promising for Portable MRI Feasibility study indicates no interference in ICU, no metal issues Feb 20, 2020
No Difference in Outcomes With Ultrasound-Guided Trial of Labor French researchers find no significant improvement in maternal-fetal mortality Feb 09, 2020
Surgeon Sues Orlando Health Over 'Forced' Referrals Says he was terminated for refusing to practice exclusively in-network Jan 27, 2020
Bad News for Tau PET Tracer in CTE Only modest correlation between imaging result and actual pathology in ex-football player Jan 07, 2020
Are Low-Density Incidental Renal Masses Being Misdiagnosed? New study raises concerns about criteria for benign cysts vs aggressive renal cancer Dec 23, 2019
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Watch for Brain Mets Present in roughly 5% of patients, survival worse in patients with larger or more lesions Nov 18, 2019
Watchman: Sicker Patients, More Deaths Than in Trials Medicare data paint a different picture of the LAA occluder Oct 31, 2019
Easy Stroke Scoring Tool Helps EMS Get Patients the Right Care Los Angeles Motor Scale deemed "powerful out-of-hospital tool" for prediction of intervention, outcomes Oct 29, 2019
Sex Assault at Mt. Sinai; Pharma's MD Millionaires; Mammography Marketing Machine This past week in healthcare investigations Oct 23, 2019
Joint Injections: Are They Worth the Risk? Adverse outcomes hastening joint replacement have raised concerns Oct 15, 2019
How Common Are Inaccurate Coronary Artery Calcium Scans? The Skeptical Cardiologist finds reason to suspect the MAC Oct 04, 2019
OCT Vs FFR: Which Is the Better Guide for Revascularization? Optical coherence tomography goes up against physiological guidance in angiographically intermediate coronary lesions Sep 30, 2019
Wires or RFID Tags in Breast Cancer Excision? Women like the less obtrusive method, but small study doesn't quite settle question of whether there's a tradeoff Sep 24, 2019
True Ischemia or Mimic? MRI changes final diagnosis in 30% of TIA and minor stroke cases Sep 23, 2019
COMPLETE Revascularization Gets Its Win for Hard Outcomes Investigators obtain missing piece of the puzzle Sep 01, 2019
