Talk about heartburn. Using a catheter with a charged tip, doctors can sizzle wayward heart cells and correct an irregular heartbeat better than standard drugs can, a head-to-head comparison shows. The report appears in the Jan. 27 Journal of the American Medical Association.
The procedure isn’t new, having been used for more than 20 years.
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