This National Wear Red Day, Wake Radiology is raising awareness for heart health by offering advanced cardiac imaging ...

9 Prior to imaging, sublingual nitroglycerin spray was administered to all patients and, if necessary metoprolol, aimed at achievement of a heart rate <65 beats/min. The scans were triggered using an ...

Around 6,000 heart attacks in the UK have been avoided in the last decade, researchers estimate, thanks to the introduction of a routine heart scan to investigate chest pain. Coronary computed ...

Heart disease is a term used to describe a constellation of conditions that can affect the heart and/or its valves, vessels, structure, electrical system, or coronary arteries. Though each disease ...

Doctors can't tell whether these clumps are harmless or will go on to become cancerous and patients have several more scans to see how the nodules develop. Researchers at an Oxford hospital have ...

About 46% of the participants were considered obese by traditional measures. Using advanced imaging technology during routine heart scans, the research team created detailed maps of where fat was ...

Bradycardia refers to a resting heart rate that is slower than usual. A heart rate of fewer than 60 beats per minute (bpm) may indicate an underlying health issue, but this is not always the case.

Blood pressure and heart rate (pulse) are two important vital signs measured during a healthcare visit. Blood pressure (BP) is a measure of the force of blood on the blood vessel walls. Blood vessels ...

In addition to osteoporosis, AI is being trained to help opportunistically identify heart disease, fatty liver disease, age-related muscle loss and diabetes. While the main focus is on CT scans ...

The software works by using AI to scan the document for key information rather than using a template format, which helps in that different invoices will tend to be formatted to present information ...

The coronary calcium scan, a painless CT scan that evaluates the risk of heart disease by measuring calcium deposits in the coronary arteries, has been proven to save countless lives. I am keenly ...