Both the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association voiced their public support this week for legislation that would expand access to cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services in the U.S.

Patients who are enrolled in Ireland’s public health system are waiting, on average, 120 days more for a brain MRI compared to those who can afford private coverage, the Irish Times reports.

Machine learning can help predict the life expectancy of heart failure patients, according to new research published in the European Journal of Heart Failure.

A handful of people associated with the White House or President Trump’s transition and campaign were hired as outside contractors to the federal government in contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, Politico reported.

Sheba Medical Center (SMC) in Israel has announced that it is working with XRHealth to become the first fully VR-based hospital in the world.

That’s according to a new survey of healthcare stakeholders, highlighted in November’s European Journal of Radiology. 

Taller people might be at an increased risk for atrial fibrillation, according to research set for presentation at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions on Nov. 16.

In fact, clinicians who took a second look at x-rays using the deep learning software improved their sensitivity, on average, by 5.2%.

Research out of Peking University in Beijing, China, has established a link between insomnia and heart disease, ABC News reports.

Expesicor has scored a $408,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a novel method of measuring pain.