Using AI to support heart attack diagnosis in emergency department does not improve patient outcomes, research finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using artificial intelligence (AI) to aid clinical decision making in identifying and managing myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED)

The heart of the question: Who can get Medicare-covered weight loss medicine?

Millions of older Americans with obesity could potentially get Medicare’s help with the hefty price of a weight-loss medication in order to reduce their high risk of heart problems. But

Three common variants increase the risk of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Study

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study by scientists at deCODE genetics and collaborators in Denmark and the U.S., on the genetics of accessory conduction pathways in the heart (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome),