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 ...

Earlier in the month, Semeda Amegashie, a pregnant mother with a rare heart condition, underwent an innovative, minimally invasive surgery at the University of Connecticut Pam and Jim Calhoun ...

Imagine a GPS-type system that maps the heart. That’s the technology that heart surgeons are increasingly using to navigate the heart and its chambers, reducing radiation from X-rays in the process.

Dr Rajjit Abrol (University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas) and associates noted that many factors influence the extent of radiation exposure during procedures and that standard protective measures may ...