I lay on the bed of the CT scan at the Heart Hospital of Austin looking up at the ceiling as it moves into the CT tunnel. A voice through the speakers tells me to breathe in, hold my breath, then ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using a heart scan in the emergency room to rule out heart attacks and other problems in low-risk patients with chest pain can save hospitals billions of dollars, researchers said ...

Share on Pinterest A new study found that CT scans do a better job than genetic testing at determining heart disease risk when conventional factors are also taken into account. Reza Estakhrian/Getty ...

CT scans are better at predicting a middle-aged person's risk for a heart disease, such as a heart attack, than genetics, reports a new study. Conventional measures of risk factor levels include blood ...

FDA-cleared AI-CVD® extracts preventive insights from routine CT—identifying hidden cardiovascular, metabolic, and ...

Heart disease is a nasty enough problem. It would be nice if the tests you have to go through just to get your diagnosis didn’t cause so much unpleasantness of their own. Now they may not have to, ...

BOSTON - A common imaging scan may be better at gauging your risk for heart disease than your underlying genetics. This came as a surprise to researchers. It's important to know who is at highest risk ...

Cardiologists at Wellspan York (Pa.) Hospital are working to change the standard of care for patients with heart complaints thanks to a new 4D cardiac CT scan machine. Currently, patients who ...

DSPH upgrades to 64-slice CT scan with cardiac application, boosting emergency and heart disease care for Davao del Sur ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors can now reliably detect heart abnormalities that could lead to sudden death in adult athletes, and should use the test whenever a healthy athlete experiences heart ...

In recent years, radiologists in the city have noticed a concerning trend: a significant rise in the number of people opting for cardiac CT scans following the sudden deaths of young celebrities. This ...