Heart & Vascular News

While Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital pioneered the first successful procedure to treat atrial fibrillation in the ‘80’s, they are on the forefront in treating the irregular heartbeat with two procedures.

Kidney donors are likely to live as long as non-donors, research shows.

Colon cancer is considered by many physicians to be a preventable cancer.  To get out the message, Siteman Cancer Center is a sponsor of the annual "Undy 5000."

No one questions the images a CT scan gives physicians in seeing the inside of a patient’s body.  What is in doubt however, is the tie such scans have to cancer risk.

While Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgeries (VATS) made its St. Louis debut in 2005 with Traves Crabtree, MD. cardiothoracic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, VATS at Barnes-Jewish will make its national debut on the Discovery Channel, which will feature Dr. Crabtree and the procedure, Saturday, March 6 at 7 a.m. on “Discovery Health CME.”