BRANSON, Mo. – A Cox Medical Center Shockwave Lithotripsy Specialist uses a machine that blasts kidney, ureter and bladder stones away on a non-human patient, a serval cat. UPDATE: Details on body ...

Typical balloon placement and pretreatment sites relative to pacing/defibrillation leads. Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol EP. Central Illustration (adapted). Pacemaker and defibrillator leads encased ...

Kevin Wininger, a computed tomography technologist and cardiovascular technologist at University Hospital’s Samaritan Medical Center who assists cardiologists in the cardiac catheterization lab with ...

A non-surgical procedure that uses shock waves to break up gallbladder stones has shown early promise bringing relief for some of the estimated 25 million Americans who have gallstones. The procedure, ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amplitude Vascular Systems (AVS), a medical device company focused on safely and effectively treating severely calcified arterial disease, announced today that it has enrolled ...

Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) has favorable efficacy in the treatment of lower pole renal stones, according to researchers. Helen Cui, MD, and colleagues at The Churchill Hospital in ...

The OIG has announced it has entered into a $7.3 million civil settlement agreement with Chicago-based, physician-owned United Shockwave Services, United Prostate Centers and United Urology Centers ...

On July 30, 2008, CMS issued its final rule regarding the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). CMS elected to allow healthcare service providers until October 1, 2009 to restructure ...

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has issued an urgent directive calling for a full investigation into the case of 255 patients who were recorded as receiving laser lithotripsy at Tay Nguyen (Central ...