Women Should Make Heart Health A Priority
Illinois women urged to take control of their health and lower their risk of heart disease – the number one killer of American women.
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FDA Approves Drug-Eluting Stent For Clogged Heart Arteries
FDA approved the Endeavor Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent for use in treating patients with narrowed coronary arteries, the blood vessels supplying the heart.
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Edwards To Add Transapical Delivery System To Clinical Trial Of Transcatheter Heart Valve
Edwards Lifesciences has received conditional approval from FDA for a revised design to US pivotal clinical trial of the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve technology.
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MR Angiography Better Detects High-Risk Heart Patients
Researchers found that coronary magnetic resonance angiography is better than 64-slice computed tomography angiography at detecting narrowing arteries in the heart, thus enabling the identification of patients with the greatest risk for heart disease.
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Integrative Cardiology Combines Natural Therapies With New Scientific Advances
Center for Integrative Medicine, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital have joined forces to offer a new approach to prevention of heart disease.
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Heart, Stroke Death Rates Steadily Decline
Since 1999, coronary heart disease and stroke age-adjusted death rates are down by 25.8 percent and 24.4 percent, respectively.
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Super-Thin Drug-Free Coating Unblocks Heart Arteries
A new stent with a nanothin surface application shows promise in opening and healing blocked heart arteries without the life-threatening dangers of drug-eluting stents.
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Healthy Heart Tips For Adults, Kids
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's a great time to take a look at the state of your heart.
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Patent Expiries Of Key Therapies Will Cut Chronic Heart Failure Market
Patent expiries of key therapies will cause the chronic heart failure drug market to decline by more than 50%.
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NitroMed To End Promotion Of Heart Failure Medication
NitroMed plans to end sales and promotional activities of the congestive heart failure medication BiDil.
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Researchers Simulate World's Largest Heart Model
In the quest to discover how the mechanisms of disease work, researchers have run the largest mathematical simulation of a heart ever assembled on a high-performance computing system from SGI.
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Congestive Heart Failure Leads To Greater Disability
Medical breakthroughs in recent decades have allowed heart attack survivors and other heart-disease patients to live longer.
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Restless Legs Syndrome Doubles Risk Of Stroke, Heart Disease
People with restless legs syndrome are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart disease.
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In-Hospital Defibrillation Delays Studied
An estimated 750,000 hospitalized patients experience cardiac arrest and undergo CPR annually, and less than 30 percent of those leave the hospital alive.
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Heart Patients Find Education Programs Lead To Better Health
Older women heart patients benefit from educational programs as a supplement to clinical care to help significantly lower cardiac symptoms, lose weight and increase physical activity.
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Patients With Delayed In-Hospital Defibrillation Have Lower Survival
A study found that delayed defibrillation was associated with lower rates of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter Heart Valve Training Program Launches In Europe
Medical Simulation Corporation launches Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter Heart Valve Training Program in Europe.
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New Heart Program Saves Patients For Fertility Medications
Ferring Pharmaceuticals announced a new, improved cost-saving program for heart patients who are considering fertility treatment, but find the costs a challenge.
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Health Coverage Improves Health, Reduces Heart Complications
For every 100 uninsured people with heart disease or diabetes before age 65, we found that with Medicare coverage they had 10 fewer major cardiac complications.
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Hospitals Do Not Deliver Recommended Defibrillation Shock To Cardiac Arrests
Hospitals in almost one-third of sudden cardiac arrest cases do not defibrillate patients in the recommended time, and such delays increase their risk for brain damage and death.
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Cardiac Defibrillation Delays in Hospitals Mean Lower Survival
Only 30 percent of patients receive life-saving cardiac defibrillation more than two minutes after cardiac arrest
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Tips For A Heart-Healthy Season
The holidays can be a hectic time. A leading cardiologist has 10 tips for getting through the season feeling healthier and less stressed.
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Babies With Major Heart Defects Less Likely To Die If Treated On Time
First national study of death risks from congenital heart repair suggests that the trickiest cases should go to regional centers.
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New Insights Into Deadly Heart Rhythm Disorder
Every year, 300,000 Americans die suddenly when, out of the blue, a storm of electrical activity arises within their heart muscle – so violent and so abrupt that their hearts just stop beating.
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Helping Illinois Residents Restore Heat During Winter Months
Good Samaritan Initiative provides more affordable reconnection terms to Low Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program recipients who have had their utility services disconnected.
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UVA Reports Surprising Findings Related To Heart Protein
In cases of Type 1 myotonic muscular dystrophy (DM1), a well known heart protein does several surprising things.
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Calcium Buildup In Arteries May Increase Heart Risks In Women
Women are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than all cancers combined.
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ATS Receives FDA Approval For AP360 Mechanical Heart Valve
ATS Medical announced FDA approval for the ATS Open Pivot AP360 Mechanical Heart Valve.
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For babies with heart defects, death risk is far lower at most experienced hospitals
Most experienced hospitals provider better heart treatments to babies who need congenital heart repair.
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Introducing Heart Savior: Ultimate Natural Heart Health Product
Heart Savior was designed for the many causes of heart disease all in one Natural product.
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Implanting embryonic cardiac cells in heart prevents arrhythmias
Researchers implant embryonic cells into damaged hearts and prevent life-threatening heart arrhythmias.
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Stem-Cell Transplant Increases Oxygen In Damaged Heart
Scientists have determined that stem cells transplanted into a damaged heart can increase the presence of oxygen at the site of injury.
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New Heart Test To Save Time, Money, Lives
A new test could give doctors a head start in diagnosing those patients most likely to suffer a heart attack.
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Amarin Commences First Clinical Trial In Cardiovascular Program
New study is significant because it marks the commencement of Amarin's cardiovascular development program and potentially addresses a major medical need.
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Nine Questions To Protect Your Heart Before Having Surgery
Most people with heart disease have other ailments, including some that require surgery.
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FDA To Review Abbott's XIENCE Drug Eluting Heart Stent
Abbott to Present Comprehensive Safety and Efficacy Data on XIENCE V Drug Eluting Heart Stent to FDA Advisory Committee on November 29.
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Framingham Heart Study Provides Important Data
Sixty years ago, Americans smoked, drank and ate too much of the wrong things, then died of heart disease and stroke.
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Patient Receives Heart Bypass Without Opening Chest
62-year-old Luther Roden is the first in east Texas to benefit from a heart bypass procedure done totally endoscopically using the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System.
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C-Port xA, Flex A Anastomosis Produce Excellent Patency In Off-Pump Bypass Surgery
Cardica presented data evaluating the patency, or openness, of bypass grafts connecting the internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery using the C-Port xA or Flex A Distal Anastomosis Systems.
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Deer Hunting Can Strain Hearts
Researchers have identified another hunting danger - the hidden danger of a heart attack among men with risk factors and known heart disease.
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