Rad Partners has “aggressively” acquired imaging groups in recent years, leaving the company highly leveraged, S&P Global analysts reported. 

Machine learning could streamline care for 22% of visits while making results available earlier by 165 minutes per affected patient, experts wrote in JAMA. 

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Advanced Radiology Services was one of the founding members of SR and is now rejoining the consortium, leaders said.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Igor Mokryk, MD, spent last week taking his family to the Polish border. This week, he treated his first gunshot wound patient at the Heart Institute in Kyiv.

CTPA is the standard of care for diagnosing PE, but suboptimal scans make it difficult to reach a diagnosis. A new Clinical Imaging study tests the effectiveness of AI when image quality is lacking.

The algorithm is already in use at some institutions in Europe, with plans for it to be utilized globally at many more within the year.

Some of the study's findings even raised concerns that losartan could be harming these patients. 

Up to 30% of individuals with "long COVID" continue to suffer from lingering coughs and dyspnea months after recovering from the infection, despite having milder cases.

"We are staying strong," one surgeon told Cardiovascular Business. 

Researchers examined data from more than 208,000 patients, sharing their findings in JACC: CardioOncology.