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More patients, fewer doctors: Demand keeps climbing as the cardiologist shortage continues

Job growth in cardiology is expected to outpace other healthcare specialties in the years ahead. The demand for new cardiologists is so high, however, that the current shortage is not expected to end anytime soon.

Stryker enters competitive IVL space with acquisition of Amplitude Vascular Systems

Stryker, one of the world’s largest medtech companies, has agreed to acquire a rising name in the field of intravascular lithotripsy.

FDA shares warning about cath lab procedure kits due to risk of patient injury

The syringes included in several convenience kits commonly used by interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists should not be used. If treatment is necessary and no other devices are available, it should be done with “extreme caution and vigilance.”

Deepak Bhatt discusses the MOMENTUM STUDY and the prevalence of hypercortisolism hypertension. #ACC #ACC26

New data highlight an unexpected link between hypercortisolism and resistant hypertension

Clinicians may need to broaden their diagnostic approach when treating and managing patients with resistant hypertension.

Radiology Partners reportedly eyeing international expansion

America’s largest radiology group has purportedly considered making a bid to buy its Australian counterpart, which tallied over $176 million in adjusted earnings last year.

9 questions radiology practices should ask when pursuing ‘disruptive innovation’

CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. — Kaihan Krippendorff, MBA, spoke on April 12 during the opening keynote of the Radiology Business Management Association’s annual meeting.

RBMA Radiology Business Management Association Paradigm Peter Moffatt

RBMA Immediate Past President Pete Moffatt takes home association’s top honor

CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. — Moffatt, currently president of radiology AI and coding firm Reasint, is the 2026 winner of the prestigious Calhoun Award.

FDA accepts previously rejected application for new PET imaging agent

Radiopharma firm Telix hopes to soon begin selling Pixclara (Floretyrosine F 18), an investigational product for glioma, a type of brain cancer.

Critical recall: Medtronic tracheostomy tube

The FDA is alerting healthcare providers about a problematic tracheostomy tube that has potential for causing serious or life-threatening injury.

Is the job market for health execs about to undergo a shakeout?

Among healthcare organizations sweating the possible passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” few have more to worry about than nonprofit hospitals and health systems that compete with privately held or publicly traded rivals for executive talent.

AI detects incidental breast lesions on routine CT scans

AI detects twice as many incidental lesions as radiologists

Prior research has suggested that these incidental lesions turn out to be cancerous in up to 70% of cases, making their timely detection critical.

Tom Price, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and former secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration, says misinformation and growing distrust of healthcare workers and institutions is negatively impacting healthcare and more needs to be done to combat it.

Former HHS secretary says healthcare needs to fight back against medical misinformation

Tom Price, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration, says misinformation and growing distrust of healthcare workers and institutions is negatively impacting healthcare and more needs to be done to combat it.

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More patients, fewer doctors: Demand keeps climbing as the cardiologist shortage continues