Interventional radiologists increasingly are involved in the treatment of urologic and nephrologic conditions and diseases. They perform such procedures as renal cryoablation, renal artery angioplasty ...

"The elevation of interventional radiology to a specialty level with its own distinct residency program places IR on the same level as surgery, pediatrics, and internal medicine," says one proponent.

New procedural techniques, robotics, augmented reality and virtual reality hold a bright future for interventional radiology in the years to come. Interventional Radiology (IR) is a medical speciality ...

If you know every public bathroom in town…If leaping out of bed to pee is routine…If you’d like a kinder, gentler treatment option for an enlarged prostate…keep reading.

This article appears in the August 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. It sounds like a conflict of epic proportions when you talk to some healthcare leaders. As David Levin, MD, former chairman of ...

Interventional radiologists have devised a new way to access a woman's fibroids -- by flipping her wrist and treating via an arm not groin artery -- to nonsurgically shrink noncancerous growths in the ...

In Your Opinion, How Has Interventional Radiology Shaped the Medical Field Over the Last 50 Years? I think it has changed medicine out of all recognition. In 1964, by introducing the concept that a ...

Finding innovative, minimally invasive ways to treat liver cancer -- and being able to tailor that treatment individually to patients -- are hallmarks of interventional radiologists. New research has ...

Interventional radiologists performing endovascular lower-extremity revascularization saved Medicare more than $1,000 per case compared to vascular surgeons and interventional cardiologists performing ...

At U.S. medical schools, interventional radiologists continue to earn more than diagnostic radiologists, though the compensation divide is narrowing, according to a study published Oct. 21 in the ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. --When patients come to Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) with life threatening injuries, the trauma team comes together with the best life saving techniques for that patient.