Ensuring that patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) get tested and treated with minimally invasive endovascular therapy saves legs and lives suggests a study in which amputation rates fell by nearly 80 percent after such a system was implemented.

Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal arrhythmias after heart attack.

Patient Portals are a trending item in the healthcare industry, but what does the term "Patient Portal" really mean?

Perhaps the biggest trend health information technology today is the movement away from traditional picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) to enterprise imaging and data management systems. This migration is important, because it will fundamentally change how clinicians have been accessing images and patient information for the past 20 years.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will strengthen its review of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to help improve the quality and reliability of these devices.