I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.

An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass ...

Ah, money, money, money — the Frankenstein monster that destroys souls.” It’s one of many oddball lines from the zany 1930s Carole Lombard and William Powell comedy, “My Man Godfrey,” but it rings true for physicians and other clinicians who know all too well how money has often got healthcare by the throat.

What do you think of when you hear the word simulation? Probably the first thing that comes to mind is flight simulation ...

As a professor of surgery and the director of a mitral valve clinic that performs 300 to 400 valve repairs each year ...