Cardiology
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself - Paul Dudley White
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Cardiology Culture Has Many Running for the Hills
It's no wonder that fewer women opt to go into cardiology, given the work-life balance issues and gender discrimination problems that plague the field. The question is: will the community do something about it?
A survey of internal medicine resident physicians revealed that the top perceptions of cardiology were that, as a field, it is associated with adverse job conditions, interference with family life, and lack of diversity. Women and future non-cardiologists valued work-life balance more highly than did men or those committed to cardiology.
In turn, women and future non-cardiologists also had worse perceptions of cardiology as a whole, according to the survey…
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Guidelines to treat leading cause of maternal deaths focus on heart disease
Ob-gyns need to better identify risks and symptoms of heart disease in pregnant patients, according to new guidelines aimed at combatting the U.S. crisis in preventable maternal deaths.
The Humble Stethoscope Gets a High-Tech Makeover
The stethoscope is a ubiquitous screening tool and a symbol of the medical profession. It may also need an update. The effectiveness of the 200-year-old device depends on the skill, experience and hearing abilities of the doctor using it. Without years of cardiac training and experience with patients, it’s difficult to recognize, much less diagnose, heart and lung abnormalities. Interpreting the sounds is sometimes more art than science, doctors say.
Twists & Turns Ahead on AI’s Road to Acceptance in Cardiology
If media coverage and buzz are any indication, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to assume a position of importance in healthcare—and cardiology is no exception. Some cardiologists perceive it as a valuable tool for helping to improve disease prevention and detection, interpret test results, personalize therapies, monitor for secondary issues and more. However, AI as a whole has, as one source puts it, “far to go” before it will be embraced by the cardiology community.
With a superstar cardiologist as its CEO, new CRISPR company targets heart disease
hen superstar cardiologist Dr. Sekar Kathiresan cataloged genes associated with coronary artery disease, he found nearly 60: some that decimate blood levels of LDL (“bad cholesterol”) and therefore protect against heart attacks, some that cause inflammation of arteries and so raise the risk of heart attacks, and scores more with effects on triglycerides, blood vessels, and other risk factors.
A Cardiac Conundrum
During the twentieth century, heart disease began to climb from relative obscurity to its now longstanding status as the leading cause of death for American adults. It has held that position every year except those between 1918 and 1920, when it yielded to the influenza pandemic. Yet cardiac care in 2013 is dramatically more advanced than it was in 1910–isn’t it?
Beware the hype over the Apple Watch heart app. The device could do more harm than good
Even if the Apple Watch does work correctly, it is by no means clear it will generate benefits to the public’s health. Most episodes of a-fib are not harmful.
Cardiology: the past, the present, and the future
Although diseases of the heart were recognized well before the 20th century, and whereas great physicians such as William Osler, James Hope, Austin Flint, and Pierre Potain wrote extensively and perceptively about physical examination of the heart and cardiovascular disease, the birth of modern cardiology can be dated to one century ago, when Willem Einthoven (Figure 1), a professor of physiology in the small Dutch town of Leiden, first recorded a human electrocardiogram and gave birth to a new specialty.
Heartbroken
Johns Hopkins promised to elevate All Children’s Heart Institute. Then patients started to die at an alarming rate.
Tackling the Rural Access Crisis: Cardiologists Will Need an Array of Tools to Meet Patients’ Needs
In an era of clinician shortages, those living in rural areas are at risk of not receiving needed care. Cardiologists are stepping up, but will it be enough?
Tech companies are competing for a new kind of talent — cardiologists
Apple, Amazon and Alphabet — Google's parent company — have begun recruiting physicians and medical professionals to their teams as they move further into the healthcare space.
Video Game Format Used to Train Cardiologists
Level Ex, creators of medical video games for physicians, expanded into cardiology with the launch of Cardio Ex. Its fourth specialty game, available free in the App Store, presents interventional cardiologists with adrenaline-pumping scenarios that push their cognitive, spatial-reasoning and decision-making skills to the limits—preparing them for critical cases they may encounter in the catheterization lab.
Why are so few interventional cardiologists women? A new study offers a few clues
While women make up a little more than half of medical school students and are reaching parity in many medical specialties, they constitute less than 13 percent of cardiologists, and a mere 4.5 percent of practicing interventional cardiologists, physicians who primarily use catheters to treat a variety of heart conditions. Yet half of their patients are women, Yong pointed out, creating a drastic imbalance.
Cardiology Culture Has Many Running for the Hills
It's no wonder that fewer women opt to go into cardiology, given the work-life balance issues and gender discrimination problems that plague the field. The question is: will the community do something about it?
4 Ways In Which AI Is Revolutionizing Cardiac Care
Although AI research is still in its infancy, these early studies already establish how AI is set to revolutionize cardiac care. This is particularly relevant today as cardiovascular diseases are still the number one killer in the world, resulting in 31% of all global deaths, and is also the most expensive condition to treat.
The Skeptical Cardiologist
I’ve been the Principal Investigator on many clinical research studies and I’ve received honoraria for speaking for multiple different drugs for Big Pharma. (I don’t do this anymore and I don’t accept snacks, treats, dinners or lunches from pharmaceutical representatives) All of these experiences have taught me to cultivate a healthy skepticism for information that has potential bias.
CardioBrief
CardioBrief is a one-stop source for new and important information of interest to cardiologists and other cardiovascular healthcare professionals.
Cardiology News
Over 25,000 cardiologists rely on Cardiology News monthly to cover the world of medicine with breaking news, on-site medical meeting coverage, and expert perspectives.
CardiologyToday
Healio.com enables you, the health care specialist, to select and tailor news and education to fit your daily practice of medicine. Designed as an in-depth specialty clinical information website, Healio.com features the industry’s best news reporting, dynamic multimedia, question-and-answer columns, CME and other educational activities in a variety of formats, quick reference content, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and a full line of popular book titles.
Cardiovascular Business
CardiovascularBusiness.com is a leading destination website for chiefs and directors of cardiology, cardiologists, C-suite technology executives and administrative department heads seeking the most in-depth business perspective on cardiovascular trends and technology.
CardioExchange Archive
CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.
CardioValens.com
CardioValens.com, an Internet Portal on Cardiology, launched on November 2000, provides latest information and education for Cardiologists and Patients/Consumers under two separate websites respectively. It caters to the needs of Healthcare Professionals, especially Cardiologists, Physicians, Medical Students, Patients/Consumers and other related Healthcare Professionals.
LearnTheHeart
LearnTheHeart.com was founded in 2003 by a medical student Steven Lome with the sole purpose of delivering high quality, free cardiology content to educate medical students and healthcare workers. LearnTheHeart.com has grown to more than 5000 pages covering all topics in cardiology including a complete ECG tutorial with hundreds of examples, quizzes, a general cardiology review and cardiology Jeopardy games.
Visible Heart Lab
Dr. Iaizzo and his coworkers work on large mammalian isolated heart models in collaboration with Medtronic, Inc.
AliveCor
We want everyone to have their health at their fingertips. That's why we make the vital health signs of people around the globe easily visible and actionable, at exceptionally low cost. This improves everything from public health to the lives and possibilities of people all over the world.
Angioplasty.org
Angioplasty.org was created in 1997 as a way of celebrating the first two decades of interventional cardiology and balloon angioplasty, and to serve as a community, information source and historical archive for cardiologists and other healthcare professionals.
Cardiology Online
We are dedicated to the advancement of global research in cardiovascular medicine through the support of scientific meetings and publications.
Cardiology.org
Cardiology.org is a web site maintained by the Clinical Exercise Physiology Consortium. The consortium is led by Dr. Ashley, Dr. Myers and Dr. Froelicher. Non-funded research and educational opportunities for pre-medical, medical, and post-medical US and International graduates are available through Stanford.
CardiologySite.com
CardiologySite.com was conceived to serve as a remote learning experience for health care providers, students, residents, fellows and people interested in expanding their knowledge in specific areas of cardiology. It was designed to provide the equivalent of classroom lectures and demonstrations with the use of the latest web-based multimedia technology.
CathLab.com
CathLab.com - a company, created to keep healthcare providers in touch with the world of invasive cardiology.
Clot Connect
Clot Connect is an information and outreach project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center. Clot Connect provides patients and healthcare professionals connection to clinically relevant education resources on deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, thrombophilia and anticoagulation.
Computing in Cardiology
Computing in Cardiology (formerly Computers in Cardiology) is an international scientific conference that has been held annually since 1974. CinC provides a forum for scientists and professionals from the fields of medicine, physics, engineering and computer science to discuss their current research in topics pertaining to computing in clinical cardiology and cardiovascular physiology.
Congenital Heart Information Network
C.H.I.N. is a national organization that provides reliable information, advocacy, support services, financial assistance and resources to families of children with congenital heart defects and acquired heart disease, and adults with congenital heart defects.
CRTonline
Whether you are a new or returning subscriber, we are certain you will find something of interest here. CRTonline.org is sponsored by CRT Group Foundation, a 501 © (3) public charity organized to perform educational services in the field of cardiology.
CTSNet
CTSNet is the most comprehensive, most heavily trafficked, and most reliable online source of information about cardiothoracic surgery available worldwide, and its online community of cardiothoracic surgeons is the largest in the world.
Dr, Smith's ECG Blog
This site contains case studies from around the world. Patient identifiers have been redacted or patient consent has been obtained. Instructive ECGs in Clinical Context ----Archives, Popular Posts, and an Index of all ECGs are down the right-hand side.
ECG Learning Center
This interactive ECG tutorial represents an introduction to clinical electrocardiography. ECG terminology and diagnostic criteria often vary from book to book and from one teacher to another. In this tutorial an attempt has been made to conform to standardized terminology and criteria, although new diagnostic concepts derived from the recent ECG literature have been included in some of the sections.
ECG Made Simple
ECG Made Simple is a comprehensive web-based ECG learning program that teaches the art and science of electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. We try to address the needs of various groups of learners, from beginners to advanced.
ECGpedia
A free electrocardiography (ECG) tutorial and textbook to which anyone can contribute, designed for medical professionals such as cardiac care nurses and physicians.
MDLinx
Articles from over 2,000 of the peer-reviewed medical journals, pre-sorted and ranked by what’s most relevant to your day-to-day practice, and summarized to save you precious time.
MedPage
Cardiology Information Center from MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading.
NEJM Journal Watch
NEJM Journal Watch equips today's caregivers with the information and perspective needed to be clinically prepared and practice with confidence. NEJM Journal Watch is used by practicing clinicians - physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, residents, students, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals - to stay informed and current in their fields.
SonoWorld
SonoWorld was launched in 1999 as a way to use the emerging Internet to provide free educational materials to ultrasound practitioners in developing countries around the world. As the founders explored ways to accomplish this mission, it became apparent that there was a global need for a centralized resource for information as well as educational resources, and that this could best be accomplished by creating a new education-focused virtual community for physicians, sonographers and industry.
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