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World Heart Day is Sept. 29

LONDON — Heart rhythm disorders are one of the most common cardiac problems. Arrhythmias cause the heart to beat [...]

PHOENIX — A Mayo Clinic team, led by Rahmi Oklu, M.D., Ph.D., a vascular and interventional radiologist at [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Looking to the future, radiologists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester saw an opportunity to bring several disparate tools together into a unified space to [...]

In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. R. Houston Thompson comments on a recent study which found a less-invasive approach to [...]

CHICAGO — For J. William Charboneau, M.D., life is a journey of unknown possibilities, filled with family. And Tuesday, Nov. 28, with family [...]

What if you could undergo a cancer treatment that would allow you to walk out of the hospital the next day with just three small [...]

For years, Lucy Lorden suffered from an irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath. But one April morning in 2014, the Ormond Beach, Florida, elementary school teacher was barely able to walk from the parking lot to her classroom. Thinking she had pneumonia, Lucy, then 56, went to see her primary care doctor. “The doctor told me to go to the emergency room right away,” she recalls. “My heart was beating at 192 beats per minute.” At the local hospital, doctors diagnosed Lucy with atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the upper heart chambers, the atria, beat irregularly. Lucy visited a local cardiologist, who prescribed several medications to regulate her rapid heartbeat and her thyroid levels. He advised follow-up every three months and once she turned 60, blood thinners to prevent a stroke. Unfortunately, just a few months shy of her 57th birthday, she would need more than simple follow-up.

In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, we hear about another way to fight metastatic breast cancer. To listen, click the link [...]