Stress testing may be done for several reasons, but the most common is to determine whether there are blockages in the arteries in the heart that are severe enough to limit blood flow.

I had a comment about your recent column on nuclear stress tests. As an 87-year-old person who has experienced atrial ...

“The traditional nuclear stress test can take several hours ... Although radioactive medicine is still administered to patients, it has a shorter half-life and provides a quicker test than ...

Nuclear medicine involves the administration into the body of small and safe amounts of radiopharmaceuticals, which are compounds containing radioactive material that can be used for diagnosis and ...

I had a comment about your recent column on nuclear stress tests. As an 87-year-old person who has experienced atrial fibrillation and a mild stroke, I have had two nuclear stress tests done. In both ...

To get me there, I was injected with something (the name escapes me) that is supposed to achieve the same result as the final stage of a nuclear stress test. As I recall the discussion ...