Many middle-aged people who suffer heart attacks and strokes have few risk factors for heart disease or stroke. Now new research suggests that a simple ultrasound test could help doctors tell the ...

An echocardiogram, or echo, is a test that helps doctors check on your heart health. The test, which is a kind of ultrasound, uses harmless sound waves to create a real-time moving picture of your ...

Hu, Huang, Li et. al. Ultrasound can provide detailed images of your heart, but the bulk makes it impractical for continuous scanning — especially outside of the hospital. It might be far more ...

ATLANTAATLANTA — The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart. Every so often, he wiggles free long enough to swing from the ...

BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC — New research provides more granular data on the types of cardiac abnormalities identified on first-trimester ultrasound screening and the impact these screenings can have on ...

Getting a clear picture of the beating heart has always been a challenge. The artificial intelligence developer UltraSight hopes to make it much easier by giving clinicians a computer-guided helping ...

In the brutal testing ground of COVID-19, a group of young heart sonographers at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center developed a way to take accurate heart images of coronavirus patients in almost half ...

One of the most vital elements of receiving an education in a healthcare field is hands on-training. Students seeking a degree in Diagnostic Cardiovasclar Sonography (DCVS) at Alvin Community College ...