Every year in this country, a million and a quarter people undergo a cardiac angiogram, a test to look for blockage in heart arteries. The long standard way to do this works well, but has a big ...

Question: I am a middle-aged woman with chest pain. I saw a heart doctor and he did a stress test, which was abnormal. I had an angiogram done and the blood vessels around my heart are not blocked. He ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...

Dr. Topol: Yes, thank you. We were all quite pleased about that. They got it wrong, though; they said the test was for heart attack. It is not for heart attack; obviously, it is for coronary disease.

Houston, TX - Patients in the Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system are less likely to receive angioplasty when they have class 1 indications for the procedure than are Medicare patients treated in the ...