Cardiac Catheterization

Two prominent California hospitals will be allowed to perform some cardiac procedures in outpatient buildings thanks to legislation approved on Friday. The bill involves cardiac catheterization, in which a small tube is inserted into an artery or vein and...

Edward Hospital is planning upgrades to its cardiovascular operating room and mental health unit using a $2.5 million donation from its fundraising foundation. The Edward …...

Michigan State's Mark Dantonio released from hospital Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, who suffered a heart attack Sunday morning after his team's 34-31 overtime win over Notre Dame, was discharged from the hospital Tuesday afternoon....

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio back in hospital Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio will miss Saturday's game against Wisconsin after after a routine post-operative examination revealed he had a blood clot in his leg....

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4 is easier to say) has created an Internet tool to make it easier for consumers to see how much their hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers are reimbursed by Medicare...

Bret Michaels, the former Poison frontman and "The Celebrity Apprentice" winner, is recovering from surgery to fix a hole in his heart in Phoenix....

Dr. Richard J. Bouchard, a retired cardiologist who played an instrumental role in the establishment of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at St. Agnes Hospital, died Saturday from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime...

What were, until Monday, City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Charles Town, W.Va., are now Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center, both under the umbrella of University Healthcare. The new names were announced...

Whitney Gaspar has long known that she didn't have much endurance. When she was in secondary school, Gaspar said she ran a "slow mile" in gym class of 14 to 15 minutes and "avoided stuff (that required) a lot of endurance." Then in December 1999,...

Located at Memorial Regional Hospital 3501 Johnson St., Hollywood; 954-987-2000 www.jdch.com The entrance looks like a ballpark, but what goes on behind these doors is serious business. As the leading children’s hospital in Broward and Palm...

Supervisors at a Maryland hospital weren't surprised when drugs were missing from a treatment room where contract radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was assigned. A manager had spotted him going through needle-disposal containers and he was among...

Monitoring a person's heartbeat and pulse has been a practice for more than one hundred years. Danville is taking the process and advancing it to the 21 century. Each of the city's fire engines now have its own portable electrocardiograms. The EKG...