Researchers Demonstrate Key Pathway Linked To Heart Development
Researchers have successfully increased the number cells required for the normal development of right-sided structures in the heart.
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iPhone Browses Diagnostic Heart Images
Medical images can be viewed on Apple's new iPhone.
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Low Potassium Levels Linked To Increased Long-Term Mortality In Heart Failure Patients
Patients with heart failure who have low to low-normal serum potassium levels are at increased risk of death.
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Heart Transplant Programs May Lose Federal Funding For Not Meeting Medicare Standards
Three hospitals in Texas, Minnesota and Indiana informed to have 30 days to submit plans to overhaul their heart transplant programs or risk losing Medicare funding.
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Closure Device For Heart Defects To Be Developed
Cardica have entered into an agreement to develop and commercialize a specialized device designed to close the patent foramen ovale, a relatively common heart defect present in approximately 15 to 20 percent of the general population.
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New European Heart Health Charter Launched
WHO and European Union join with the European Heart Network and European Society of Cardiology in launching the European Heart Health Charter.
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Advocate Christ Medical Center Ready To Begin Heart Transplants Following State Approval
Oak Lawn-based Advocate Christ Medical Center will begin performing heart transplants, as a result of approval by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.
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Response Biomedical Receives Approval to Market NT-proBNP Congestive Heart Failure Marker Test
Response Biomedical has been granted a medical device license by Health Canada to market its RAMPO NT-proBNP Test.
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Newer Breast Cancer Drug May Protect Heart
By uncovering how one breast cancer drug protects the heart and another does not, researchers believe they may have opened up a new way to screen drugs for possible heart-related side effects and to develop new drugs.
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Standards For Measuring Narrowing Of Carotid Artery With Ultrasound Too Aggressive
Standards for the use of ultrasound as a screening tool to measure narrowing of the carotid artery may be too aggressive, resulting in some needless follow-up tests and procedures.
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Cardiac Surgery Death Rates Decline To Lowest Level In A Decade
Cardiac surgery death rates have dropped to their lowest level since the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services began issuing reports a decade ago.
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Data Affirms Avandia Cardiovascular Safety Profile
GlaxoSmithKline confirms that a letter to the editor summarizing additional Avandia cardiovascular safety data from several large-scale clinical trials was published online today in The Lancet.
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Free Women's Heart Screening Offered By Rush University
Rush University Medical Center and 2 BigHearts are offering a free women's heart screening on June 2, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Suite 1159 of the Rush Professional Building.
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UPMC to study heart support device as a bridge to transplantation
Doctors at UPMC have begun a study using an investigational cardiac device, the VentrAssist Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAD) to see whether it can be used safely and effectively in patients with end-stage heart failure.
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Pycnogenol reduces heart failure
Study demonstrates Pycnogenol counteracts the "wearing out" of the heart, which may aid the five million Americans living with heart failure.
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Drug-Eluting Stents May Not Be For All Clogged Heart Vessels
Physicians know that drug-eluting stents are an effective way to ensure that a patient's arteries will remain open after balloon angioplasty.
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Heart Care At High-Volume Hospitals May Matter More To African American Patients
African American patients who undergo heart bypass surgery in high-volume hospitals have more benefit than white patients.
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iPods May Interfere With Pacemaker Function
Portable music players called iPods interfered with pacemakers in 30 percent of patients tested in a new study, though none of the interference was life-threatening.
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Online Education Program Is Effective Source Of Information For Heart Patients
Patients who used the association's online heart disease education program were more aware of treatment options than Internet-using patients who did not use the association's program.
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Kellogg To Improve Heart Health Of Women With Smart Start Healthy Heart Kit
Knowing two important numbers - cholesterol and blood pressure - can help women evaluate their overall risk for heart disease and lead them on the path to healthier living.
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High Percentage Of Heart Patients Receive Off-Label And Untested Drug-Coated Stents
One-year follow-up showed patients receiving stents off-label or untested faired similarly to patients who fit FDA criteria for standard use.
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Add Heart Ejection Fraction To List Of Risk Factors To Know
With as many as 20 million Americans living with hearts that aren't as strong as they should or could be, cardiologists at Ohio State University Medical Center recommend adding another measurement to the list of risk factors for heart disease: the ejection fraction.
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Medicomp Announces Industry First Ambulatory Atrial Fibrillation Burden Monitoring Service For Cardiac Patients
Medicomp announced that it will introduce the first-ever Atrial Fibrillation (AF) burden statistical package available on an ambulatory cardiac monitor at Heart Rhythm 2007.
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Wisconsin Heart Hospital To Use Device To Perform Blood Vessel Graft During Bypass Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgeon Husam H. Balkhy was the first in the United States to use the C-Port(R) Flex A Anastomosis System, a fully-automated, flexible shaft device to attach a blood vessel graft during coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Combining Common Blood-Thinning Therapies After Coronary Angioplasty May Cause A Deadly Problem
Physicians should examine the risk factors before giving patients undergoing interventional heart procedures a combination of anti-blood clotting therapies.
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ATS 3f Aortic Bioprosthesis Offers Unique Approach To Enhanced Durability
ATS Medical acknowledged the positive clinical results of aortic root dimensions study presented by noted cardiologist Dr. Xu Yu Jin.
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Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Recalls Cardiac Markers
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics has initiated a voluntary, nationwide recall of two lots of a diagnostic test used by physicians to aid in the diagnosis of injury to heart muscle and/or heart attack because of shifts in test results that could contribute to a missed diagnosis of myocardial infarction.
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Nitric Oxide: Key To Cardiovascular And Pulmonary Function
A naturally occurring molecule in the body appears to control whether certain medications, such as beta adrenergic receptor agonists used in acute heart failure or in inhalers for asthma, lose their effectiveness over time.
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Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Program Achieves Zero Percent Mortality
Lake Hospital System announced that it achieved zero percent mortality for all cardiac and major thoracic cases performed in 2006 through its Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Program at LakeWest Hospital.
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Aspirin May Be Less Effective Heart Treatment For Women Than Men
A new study shows that aspirin therapy for coronary artery disease is four times more likely to be ineffective in women compared to men with the same medical history.
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Response Biomedical To Present 2 Studies On Chest Pain
Response Biomedical Corporation is presenting data from two international studies at the Tenth Congress of Chest Pain Centers - The Chest Pain Center - A Team Approach in ACS Care.
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Minimally Invasive Stent Placement Can Fix Thoracic Aneurysms
The availability of a federally approved stent for aortic aneurysms in the upper chest is improving the quality of life for patients who otherwise would undergo a complicated open surgery or live a life of worry.
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Heart failure: intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss
Annexin A5 Imaging offers opportunity to 'minimize' damage to Heart Muscle and may help in early identification of those individuals who are at risk of developing heart failure.
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Fewer heart patients need antibiotics before dental procedures
American Heart Association, American Dental Association introduce new guidelines.
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FDA Approves Innovative Heart Failure Lead
This heart product features a deflectable tip for precise placement of the lead even in difficult-to-access branch vessels on the left side of the heart.
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Heart Transplants Save Youngest Of Babies Who Might Otherwise Have No Donor
Transplant leaders at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC are increasingly turning to an innovative procedure to make transplant surgery an option for young children with life-threatening heart failure.
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Pump design could give heart patients new hope
Heart pump's innovative design was based on a double-output centrifugal model that pushed the blood in a counter direction to ensure correct flow through both sides of the heart.
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ICD Devices Offer Heart Patients Life-Saving Benefits And Excellent Quality Of Life
Researchers have discovered that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators - electric monitoring devices that deliver a lifesaving shock in the event of a cardiac arrest - help patients with heart problems live longer more active lives.
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Diagnostic Assays That Identify High Risk Cardiovascular Patients
Haptoglobin genotype identifies patients most likely to benefit from Alteon's investigational drug ALT-2074.
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Leg Pain Can Mean Heart Danger
Symptoms of peripheral artery disease can be a valuable warning of future heart attack and stroke danger - if you pay attention to the signs.
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