An echocardiogram, or echo, is a test that helps doctors check on your heart health. The test, which is a kind of ultrasound, uses harmless sound waves to create a real-time moving picture of your ...

Registered cardiac sonographers Emma Beedy and Alyssa Souders have spent more than five years in an acute clinical cardiac setting, often seeing patients who have already experienced a cardiac event. ...

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences will offer a new ultrasound degree program starting in the upcoming academic year. The East Lampeter Township-based college recently announced plans to launch a ...

Since her high school biology class when she had to trace a drop of blood through the body, Ida Urbano has been “fascinated by the heart.” So she’s spent the last four decades helping people stay ...

In patients undergoing echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac function, preliminary assessment by artificial intelligence (AI) is superior to initial sonographer assessment, according to late ...

Researchers have developed an AI-powered robotic system capable of autonomously performing cardiac ultrasound scans, potentially expanding access in remote or underserved areas. The system uses a ...

CLARKSVILLE -- Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus cardiac sonography graduates in the class of 2025 achieved a 100% pass rate on the cardiac sonography board examination administered by ...

An online community for sonographers channels the professional excellence and passion that is a hallmark of RIT’s diagnostic medical sonography program. Hayley Bartkus ’17 (diagnostic medical ...

Researchers have developed an AI-driven robotic system capable of performing cardiac ultrasound scans without human guidance. Using deep reinforcement learning and synthetic training environments, the ...

The UAMS Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2025 achieved a 100% first-time pass rate on the National Physical Therapy Exam (NPTE), taken at the end of July. The class far exceeded the current ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...