Devi Nair, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology with St. Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, discussed her experience using a new-look Medtronic pulsed field ablation (PFA) system to treat persistent AFib.

A Cleveland Clinic researcher accepted NIH funding without telling the agency about money coming in for the same project from one or more foreign backers. For this the nonprofit Cleveland Clinic Foundation will pay $7.6 million.

Radiology researchers feel no less squeezed to “publish or perish” than academics working in any other medical specialty.

Up to 30% of patients have metastatic disease by the time they are initially diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, making accurate staging a critical element of treatment planning. 

Women with dense breast tissue are less likely than normal-density peers to develop breast cancer between screening mammography exams.

Experts have identified numerous white matter features, in addition to changes in white matter tracts that occur over time, which they believe are more common among people with ADHD.

"This was the first PFA IDE study to support a substantial number of fluoro-free procedures," said presenter Vivek Reddy, MD.

Researchers are proposing making additional phases beyond the 10-minute mark mandatory when analyzing brain metastases.