The widely used biomarker contributes to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually on cardiac care, but adds no value in evaluating patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome, ...

The alliance based at Johns Hopkins seeks to promote high-value healthcare and educate the next generation of medical students in these principles. Investigators from Johns Hopkins University and the ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have compiled peer-reviewed evidence and crafted a guideline designed to help physicians and medical centers stop the ...

Nearly 7 million patients present to U.S. emergency departments annually for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). Despite hospital admission of the 25% to 30% who have atypical ...

Parma, Italy - Authors of a new, prospective, multicenter study say their research is the first to clearly show a link between elevated creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) post-PCI and increased risk of ...

Physicians and laboratorians must work to reduce use of antiquated clinical laboratory tests. We selected 10 representative tests considered antiquated by most experts in the clinical laboratory ...

DALLAS, Aug. 20 – A test commonly used to diagnose heart attacks may also identify patients at increased risk of death after balloon angioplasty, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of ...