Embryonic morphological development is delayed in live pregnancies ending in miscarriage, according to a prospective cohort study from the Netherlands.

Check out this episode of HealthWatch that covers the cardiovascular impact of low and moderate dose radiation, coffee’s effect on heart function, COVID-19 testing in long-term care facilities, and the link between delirium after surgery in older adults and subsequent dementia.

Compared with standard fractionation, hyperfractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) could significantly increase overall survival, as well as reduce the rate of severe late complications in patients with locally advanced recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Researchers out of Rutgers University in New Jersey have used artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate when patients may present with atrial fibrillation (AFib), heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions, sharing their findings in Genomics.

Google’s medically focused generative artificial intelligence model achieved 85% accuracy on a U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) practice test, the highest score ever recorded by an AI model, according to preliminary results shared by the Google Health AI team.

The typical chest CT patterns seen in COVID-19 patients were far less frequent in individuals infected with Omicron and in the vaccinated, a retrospective multicenter study from France showed.

Advanced imaging came up short overall in patients with heart failure (HF) who required further definition of ischemia or viability, although select patients seemed to see some benefit, according to the AIMI-HF trial.

A group of researchers was recently able to determine reference values for anatomical and functional parameters in the heart of adolescents thanks to a new dataset of cardiac MRI exams. Experts involved in the work suggest that their achievement will have significant clinical implications, as there is limited MR imaging data on healthy adolescent hearts...

An investigational PET imaging agent, identified clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) with high sensitivity and specificity, according to results from the phase III ZIRCON trial.

Immediate complete revascularization was non-inferior to staged complete revascularization in patients who presented with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and multivessel disease, according to BIOVASC trial findings.