Carotid Bruit Warns Of Heart Attack Risk
Noise from brain artery called carotid bruit could be a warning sign of heart attack or stroke risk.
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New Test May Trim Time Off Diagnosing Heart Attacks In The Future
A new saliva test may one day be handy for anyone to be able to tell if someone is having a heart attack. The quicker a person is diagnosed with a heart attack the better the odds that they can survive.
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First Trial To Treat A Heart Attack Patient With Special Stem Cell
Scientists have begun the world's first clinical trial to treat heart attack patients with a special type of stem cell to promote better healing and to prevent congestive heart failure, which many patients develop following a heart attack.
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Treating Heart Attack With Stem Cell Injection
A new trial will use adult stem cells as a new treatment for heart attack patients.
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Predictors Of Sudden Cardiac Death Change Following Heart Attack
Risk of sudden cardiac death increases following a heart attack, but the factors that predict such deaths change over time.
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Heart Attack Patients Do Not Benefit From Home Defibrillators
New study shows there is no much added benefit from use of home automated external defibrillators for patients that are at risk for heart attack.
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Is PCI Safe, Effective After Clot-Busters for Heart Attack?
Percutaneous coronary intervention is the best treatment for heart attack when performed rapidly.
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Study Gives Nod To Drug-Eluting Stents In Heart Attack
Although drug-eluting stents have become widely used for the treatment of stable coronary artery disease, many cardiologists choose bare-metal stents for patients with heart attack.
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Signaling Protein Helps Limit Damage In Heart Attack
A specific signaling protein is crucial to protecting the heart and helping it to adapt during a heart attack.
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Doctors To Ask Patients With Heart Attack Signs About Cocaine
Doctors Need To Ask If Cocaine Was Used When Patients Show Signs And Symptoms Of Heart Attack.
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Mailed Reminders Encourage Heart Attack Patients To Take Medicine
Mailing patients who have suffered a heart attack an easy-to-read, personal reminder can increase the odds that they will continue to take their necessary beta-blocker medication.
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Novel compound may lessen heart attack damage
A novel drug designed to lessen muscle damage from a heart attack has passed initial safety tests at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
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Aspirin In Heart Attack Prevention: How Much, How Long?
A low dose of aspirin appears to be just as effective as a higher dose in preventing a heart attack, stroke.
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Integrated City-Wide Emergency Protocol Cuts Heart Attack Deaths
People in the Ottawa region who call 911 with chest pain are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack as a result of an advanced emergency protocol developed by UOHI.
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Docs May Be Overdosing Aspirin In Treating Heart Attacks
When it comes to aspirin, less is more in the early treatment of a heart attack.
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New Strategy To Cut Heart Attack Risk Is Effective In Initial Test
The first clinical trial of a new kind of drug to cut the risk of cardiovascular disease has been found safe and effective at dropping levels of bad low density lipoprotein cholesterol.
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Heart Attack Symptoms In Women: Are they Different?
Chest pain is still the most common sign of a heart attack for most women, although studies have shown that women are more likely than men to have symptoms other than chest pain.
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Heart Attack in spotlight as Alex Trebek is hospitalized for a minor heart attack
Popular game show host Alex Trebek had a minor heart attack and is hospitalized. His popularity and the cause of hospitalization bring heart attack again into focuse, as many people are wondering about the symptoms and signs of heart attack and treatment options.
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Portola Initiates Phase II Clinical Program In Heart Attack Patients
Portola Pharmaceuticals initiates a Phase II clinical trial of the intravenous formulation of PRT060128 in patients experiencing an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction or heart attack.
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Improving Quality of Care For Heart Attack, A Statewide Program
Implementation of a heart attack care program in North Carolina to increase the rate of coronary reperfusion (restoring blood flow to the heart muscle) for heart attack significantly improved the quality of care these patients received
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Prasugrel Reduces Risk Of Major Cardiovascular Events
In the pivotal Phase III head-to-head TRITON TIMI-38 clinical trial, the investigational antiplatelet agent prasugrel produced a highly significant 19 percent reduction in relative risk for the composite endpoint of cardiovascular death.
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More People Die Of Heart Attacks During Months Of November Thru January
Studies report that 53% more heart attacks occur in the winter than summer.
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New Therapy Could Preserve Vessel Function After Heart Attack
Scientists have identified the process that causes blood vessels to constrict during and after a heart attack.
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Screening family members could prevent 4 in 10 premature heart attacks
Families of patients with premature coronary heart disease: an obvious but neglected target for primary prevention.
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Many Heart Attack Patients Don't Get Best Emergency Treatment
Far more of today's heart attack patients receive emergency angioplasty treatment or clot-busting drugs to re-open their clogged heart arteries.
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Many Heart Attack Patients Not Receiving Emergency Clot-Busting Treatment
Far more of today's heart attack patients receive emergency angioplasty treatment or clot-busting drugs to re-open their clogged heart arteries.
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Integrated system, rapid transfer is lifeline for heart attack victims
Heart attack patients received lifesaving treatment quickly when hospitals and communities used an integrated, rapid transfer system to get patients to a facility equipped to perform artery-opening procedures.
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Heart attack treatment is faster with coordinated care
Heart attack patients as far as 150 miles away from a 24-hour emergency heart care center were able to receive heart attack treatment for blocked arteries within or faster than current recommended time frames.
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A Bluetooth Heart Monitor - SMS your ECG to ER
Portable bluetooth heart monitor sends emergency alerts, imminent heart attacks and ECG as text message.
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Best Hospitals Not Always The Best for Heart Attack Patients
Heart attack patients admitted to hospitals ranked to be among "America's Best" by U.S. News & World Report are less likely to die within 30 days than those patients admitted to non-ranked hospitals.
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Women's Health Initiative Findings On HRT's Effect On Heart Attack Risk
$725 million NIH-sponsored Women's Health Initiative on hormone replacement therapy's effects on heart attack risk.
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Black Medicare Patients Less Likely To Get Certain Heart Attack Treatments
Black Medicare patients who have had heart attacks are less likely than white patients to receive heart bypass surgery or angioplasty even after being admitted to hospitals that provide the services.
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Lovenox For The Most Severe Type Of Heart Attack Treatment Approved By FDA
Food and Drug Administration has approved a supplemental New Drug Application for the anticoagulant Lovenox (enoxaparin sodium injection) for the treatment of patients with acute ST- segment elevation myocardial infarction.
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New genetic research a breakthrough in protecting families from heart attacks
Trying to find genes that put some families at an increased risk of heart attacks is like trying to find a collection of needles scattered amongst a field full of hay stacks.
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Good News On Heart Attack And Chest Pain: Deaths Declining
Good news on heart attack and chest pain: International study shows patients who get modern treatments have lower risks of death, stroke and heart failure.
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New Tool Refines Heart Attack Risk Prediction
For about 10 years, the Framingham risk score has been used to estimate a person's chances of having a heart attack based on just six bits of information -- age, sex, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, smoking status, and systolic blood pressure.
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New heart attack treatments reduce death rates
Rates of dying from severe heart attacks following admission to hospital have nearly halved in 6 years as a result of advances in medical treatment.
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Hospital Is Rewriting Cardiac Arrest Survival Data
In the United States, a person's chance of surviving cardiac arrest is probably much lower than most people realize: 17-19 percent in hospitals.
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Aspirin Use For Preventing Heart Attack Not As High As Expected
Although taking an aspirin regularly can lower the risk of heart attack, a new study finds that too few adults are using the common pain reliever for prevention.
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Heart Attack Death Rates Not Higher At Iowa's Rural Hospitals
Rural hospitals in Iowa provide quality care for patients with heart attacks and do not have higher death rates when compared to urban hospitals.
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