Targeted radiation therapy might be a safer way to treat a potentially dangerous heart rate problem called ventricular ...

Radiation therapy may offer a comparable and potentially safer alternative to repeat catheter ablation for patients with ...

People who undergo radiation-based tests and procedures after a heart attack may have a heightened risk of developing cancer down the road, a study published Monday suggests. Researchers found that ...

After breast cancer surgery, patients typically face an agonizing six weeks of radiation therapy. A new procedure is giving some the choice of a five-day treatment. "Normally, we treat the whole ...

(HealthDay News) – National strategies should be developed for the use of evidence-based criteria and improved oversight of equipment to minimize radiation exposure for patients undergoing diagnostic ...

Patients with refractory VT may be too medically fragile to safely undergo a repeat catheter ablation. Is stereotactic ...

Florida Cancer Specialists has integrated SpaceOAR Hydrogel into its armamentarium as a pre-treatment for radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients. Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS), the largest ...

New data from a long-term registry of patients undergoing PCI of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) shows that radiation dose has been decreasing over time, with newer equipment probably playing a role ...

Compared with interventional cardiologists, interventional imagers are exposed to markedly higher levels of radiation during structural heart procedures, according to new single-center data. These ...

AUSTIN, Texas – If you've ever had an X-ray, you've watched the tech personnel don a lead vest for protection from potentially harmful radiation. But that usually only takes a few seconds. Now imagine ...

To reduce the amount of fluoroscopy or X-ray radiation, a team of researchers worked with imaging tools such as 3D mapping and ultrasound to develop a new standard for radiation-free electrophysiology ...