Sham Procedures in CV Research: What’s Sacrificed for Science? Two new papers explore what sham-controlled trials offer, how to reduce risks, and whether patients are truly informed.

Building a system is a blend of art and science. The science contains several attributes of both procedures and processes that must be present in order to achieve your desired results.

Squirt, an 11-day-old ram lamb, received a lifesaving heart procedure by Oregon State University veterinarians, likely making it a world first.

In parallel to the evolution of compendial and regulatory approaches addressing new quality paradigms for analytical procedure validation (discussed in Part I of this article), fundamentals of the ...

The new procedure can also be considered for individuals with minimal to no symptoms of atrial fibrillation, providing long-term benefits such as lower risk of heart failure, stroke and dementia.

Lobotomies have always been controversial, but they were widely performed for more than two decades to treat mental illness.