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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing? 

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Conavi Medical's new hybrid imaging system simultaneously performs IVUS and OCT.

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Physician burnout rates continue to fall, and the healthy trend comes alongside strong and stable rates of physician job satisfaction.

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Heart Rhythm 2026 in Chicago will include a total of 18 late-breaking clinical trials—and that is just the beginning. The four-day event kicks off April 23.

Gregg Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, presented the results of the long-awaited STEMI Door or Unloading time trial, which takes a different approach to first using a percutaneous heart pump to unload the heart 30 minutes prior to PCI interventions to try and prevent common complications and improve outcomes.

Gregg Stone, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the lessons he and his colleagues learned from the STEMI DTU trial.

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The FDA asked, and Eli Lilly and Company delivered. The company now hopes to secure an additional approval for orforglipron/Foundayo that covers the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

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Of all lawsuits filed against patients in 2024 in one U.S. state, physician practices and other non-hospital healthcare entities accounted for 80% of cases. That’s a complete inversion from just six years prior.  

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In the three or so years since it burst into healthcare, ambient AI scribe technology has run away with the win in the market-uptake race. What has been the return on investment in all those software packages? 

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Cardiologists in the United States now earn an average annual income of $575,000. That represents an increase of 10% compared to the previous year.

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Two respected radiology organizations have issued a stark warning on the new recommendations, stating that they risk confusing patients and “may contribute to thousands of additional breast cancer deaths each year.”

Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) identified on screening mammograms may help identify women who face a heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a new analysis published in Clinical Imaging.

HB 1364, a bill some radiologists pushed back against, is headed to the Governor’s desk to be finalized. It is set to take effect on Oct. 1. 

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New 10-year data explored the impact of performing SAVR on asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis.

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Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing?