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The balloon-free catheter, which already had a successful in the United States, has been associated with positive outcomes and the ability to reach certain lesions more accurately than balloon-based IVL platforms.

Wael Jaber, MD, chair of the 2025 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) annual meeting, director of nuclear cardiology and a professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic, spoke at a session on the role of cardiac imagers on the heart team. #ASNC

Heart teams continue to play a major role at hospitals and health systems all over the world. Cardiac imagers who have trained in multiple modalities can provide those teams with a significant amount of value.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a smart watch artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that tells wearers if they are suspected of having hypertension, which is expected to help notify about 1 million users over the next year. This a is a new feature of the newly launched Apple Watch Ultra 3, which the company unveiled Sept. 9. Apple gained FDA for its Cardiovascular Machine Learning-Based Notification Software Hypertension Notification Feature (HTNF) Sept. 11, 2025.

The FDA’s decision arrived just days after Apple announced the new feature. "This tool empowers patients and clinicians to work together, putting prevention at the center of care," one cardiologist told Cardiovascular Business. 

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Safety concerns with certain Boston Scientific leads has resulted in multiple Class I recalls, the FDA has announced. The agency first shared a warning about this issue in August. 

The tool analyzes routine hip and pelvis X-rays for signs of low bone mineral density.

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The Society of Interventional Radiology and American College of Radiology are thanking lawmakers for reintroducing the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act. 

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Only 43% of women with disabilities receive American Society of Breast Surgeons-recommended mammography screening services, according to a new single-center study. 

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Colorado Springs Radiologists and its roughly 25 physicians are seeking to gain the benefits of scale without the challenges of consolidation. 

Cardiologists have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of accurately evaluating a long list of measurements on echocardiography results. The group detailed the development and validation of that model in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The algorithm, trained on more than 150,000 TTE studies, can calculate 18 different measurements regularly used in echocardiography

Plaintiff attorneys claim the Massachusetts-based company shattered the competitive position of Pylarify, a PET imaging agent for prostate cancer. 

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"We urge Congress to pass final legislation that reflects this approach and retains ACR-backed provisions that can save lives," CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, said Sept. 10. 

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Founded in 2011 and based in Belgium, the AI firm offers the first software for automating brain assessments needed to administer disease therapies from Biogen and Eli Lilly. 

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The balloon-free catheter, which already had a successful in the United States, has been associated with positive outcomes and the ability to reach certain lesions more accurately than balloon-based IVL platforms.

Heart teams continue to play a major role at hospitals and health systems all over the world. Cardiac imagers who have trained in multiple modalities can provide those teams with a significant amount of value.

The FDA’s decision arrived just days after Apple announced the new feature. "This tool empowers patients and clinicians to work together, putting prevention at the center of care," one cardiologist told Cardiovascular Business.