The first of its kind blood test can determine whether or not there is a blockage in your heart. The new genetic based blood test could drastically reduce the number of invasive and unnecessary heart ...

December 16, 2008 (Washington, DC) — The latest study to compare the diagnostic accuracy of CT angiography (CTA) to the gold standard--conventional coronary angiography (CCA)--indicates that the ...

TORONTO, ON — New data from Ontario show that almost 42% of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent a diagnostic angiogram within a 17-hospital network were found to have ...

It’s not a perfect test. Yet researchers report a key step for the first gene test aimed at reducing unnecessary angiograms — expensive and somewhat risky procedures that hundreds of thousands of ...

People who feel symptoms of a heart attack but live far from a hospital may take some comfort from a new Canadian-led study that suggests many people with mild heart attacks can safely wait to get ...

A new type of imaging technique using an MRI device can detect most diseased coronary arteries, potentially sparing many heart patients a more invasive, expensive and uncomfortable test, researchers ...

Norman Swan: This morning on the Health Report, getting genes to shut up as a treatment for inherited problems; another inherited condition that's under-recognised in Australia which can show up as ...

Lani Mercado after her medical procedure: “My angiogram test turned out…” Bacoor city Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla is doing well after her angiogram procedure. According to vascular.org, angiogram is an ...