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Studies Analyze Koreans' Knowledge Of Cardiovascular Health, Hmong Adults' Perception Of Oral Health

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
The following summarizes research from the February 2008 edition of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health." ...

read more The following summarizes research from the February 2008 edition of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

The Fight Against Cancer Taken To Heart

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice, according to researcher David Vesely, a doctor at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa and a prof ...

read more Hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice, according to researcher David Vesely, a doctor at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa and a prof read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Europe's Human And Economic Cost Of Heart Disease

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
New figures published by the European Society of Cardiology1 and the European Heart Network2 this month, highlighted the significant differences in cardiovascular disease across Europe. One fact, nevertheless, remains the same: cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in the European ...

read more New figures published by the European Society of Cardiology1 and the European Heart Network2 this month, highlighted the significant differences in cardiovascular disease across Europe. One fact, nevertheless, remains the same: cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in the European read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Gift Establishes Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute: A 'Medical Town Square' Dedicated To The Treatment Of Heart Disease

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has announced that Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., has made a $50 million gift to the Medical Center to be equally divided between NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, in support ...

read more NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has announced that Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., has made a $50 million gift to the Medical Center to be equally divided between NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, in support read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Covidien Announces Tentative FDA Approval For Its Generic Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Kit

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted tentative approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for its Kit for the Preparation of Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi Injection. Covidien's tentatively approved product is a ge ...

read more Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted tentative approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for its Kit for the Preparation of Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi Injection. Covidien's tentatively approved product is a ge read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Medtronic Announces First Human Use Of Its Bifurcation Stent

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Seeking to address a challenge facing interventional cardiologists and hundreds of thousands of patients with coronary artery disease worldwide, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the first human use of its investigational bifurcation stent. The new stent employs an innovative Y-shaped design t ...

read more Seeking to address a challenge facing interventional cardiologists and hundreds of thousands of patients with coronary artery disease worldwide, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the first human use of its investigational bifurcation stent. The new stent employs an innovative Y-shaped design t read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

France: Heart Attack Rates Drop Following National Smoking Ban

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Statistics show that since a smoking ban took effect in France a year ago, admissions of patients with myocardial infarction dropped 15 percent at emergency wards. French health authorities told the National Sanitary Institute that there was a 15 percent decrease in admissions of patients with heart ...

read more Statistics show that since a smoking ban took effect in France a year ago, admissions of patients with myocardial infarction dropped 15 percent at emergency wards. French health authorities told the National Sanitary Institute that there was a 15 percent decrease in admissions of patients with heart read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Boston Scientific Announces First European Implants Of New Devices To Treat Heart Failure And Sudden Cardiac Death

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the first European implants of its COGNIS(TM) cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and TELIGEN(TM) implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Physicians began performing implants earlier this week. Forty implants have been pe ...

read more Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the first European implants of its COGNIS(TM) cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and TELIGEN(TM) implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Physicians began performing implants earlier this week. Forty implants have been pe read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Broomwell's Cardiac Telemedicine Service Proven To Prevent Hospital Admissions In Year-Long Study

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
The results of a 12-month trial of a cardiac telemedicine service supervised by the Greater Manchester and Cheshire (GMC) Cardiac Network, has proven that the service avoids immediate referral of patients with non-acute chest-pain symptoms to hospital care, in nearly 60% of cases. ...

read more The results of a 12-month trial of a cardiac telemedicine service supervised by the Greater Manchester and Cheshire (GMC) Cardiac Network, has proven that the service avoids immediate referral of patients with non-acute chest-pain symptoms to hospital care, in nearly 60% of cases. read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

SCORED Screening Test Accurately And Efficiently Identifies Individuals With Silent Chronic Kidney Disease

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
The general public is not sufficiently aware that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious and progressive medical condition. It remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Understandably so, since in its early stages CKD is often asymptomatic, making individuals with the disease and their health-ca ...

read more The general public is not sufficiently aware that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious and progressive medical condition. It remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Understandably so, since in its early stages CKD is often asymptomatic, making individuals with the disease and their health-ca read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Survival Rates Exceed National Averages For UCSF Heart, Liver And Lung Transplant Programs

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). ...

read more One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Loud Snoring Associated With Higher Stroke And Heart Disease Risk

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
If you are a loud snorer there is a good chance your risk of stroke and heart disease is higher compared to people who do not snore, say Hungarian scientists after a new study on 12,643 participants. You can read about this in the journal Sleep.The authors explain that everybody snores to some exten ...

read more If you are a loud snorer there is a good chance your risk of stroke and heart disease is higher compared to people who do not snore, say Hungarian scientists after a new study on 12,643 participants. You can read about this in the journal Sleep.The authors explain that everybody snores to some exten read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

New Drug Targets For Preventing Cell Death

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
A new compound that blocks an early step in cell death could lead to a novel class of drugs for treating heart attacks and stroke.When cells are deprived of oxygen -- during a heart attack, for example -- they start to die through a tidy process called apoptosis or programmed cell death. Early in ap ...

read more A new compound that blocks an early step in cell death could lead to a novel class of drugs for treating heart attacks and stroke.When cells are deprived of oxygen -- during a heart attack, for example -- they start to die through a tidy process called apoptosis or programmed cell death. Early in ap read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Low Fat Diets More Likely To Reduce Risk Of Heart Disease Than Low Carb Diets

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Low fat diets are more effective in preserving and promoting a healthy cardiovascular system than low carbohydrate, Atkins' like diets, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.The study, published in the February edition of the scientific journal Hype ...

read more Low fat diets are more effective in preserving and promoting a healthy cardiovascular system than low carbohydrate, Atkins' like diets, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.The study, published in the February edition of the scientific journal Hype read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Risk Of Death For Heart Attack Patients Raised By Clinical Depression Even Years Later

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Depressed heart attack patients have a higher risk for sudden death in the months following a heart attack. Now a team led by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that the risk continues for many years."There's a two- to four-fold increase in a person's ri ...

read more Depressed heart attack patients have a higher risk for sudden death in the months following a heart attack. Now a team led by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that the risk continues for many years. read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Older Patients Experience A "Nearly Inescapable Obligation" To Pursue Cardiac Interventions

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
When older patients are facing decisions about whether to undergo cardiac interventions, such as bypass surgery or angioplasty, they experience an "almost inexorable momentum towards intervention," say researchers in an Essay in this week's PLoS Medicine. ...

read more When older patients are facing decisions about whether to undergo cardiac interventions, such as bypass surgery or angioplasty, they experience an read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Researchers Describe Mechanisms By Which Capon Gene Causes Heart Rhythm Disturbances

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
A research team from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins University and China Medical University and Hospital in Taiwan have described for the first time the mechanisms by which variants of a specific gene, CAPON or NOS1AP, can disrupt normal heart rhythm. Until recently, CAPON was not e ...

read more A research team from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins University and China Medical University and Hospital in Taiwan have described for the first time the mechanisms by which variants of a specific gene, CAPON or NOS1AP, can disrupt normal heart rhythm. Until recently, CAPON was not e read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Boston Scientific Announces First Implant Of New Device To Treat Heart Failure

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the first implant of its COGNIS? cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). This device represents an entirely new platform to treat heart failure and is the result of a multi-year research and development effort to provide physicia ...

read more Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the first implant of its COGNIS? cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). This device represents an entirely new platform to treat heart failure and is the result of a multi-year research and development effort to provide physicia read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

Boston Scientific Announces European Approval Of New Heart Failure Lead

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced CE Mark approval of its ACUITY(R) Spiral left ventricular lead for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, both of which treat heart failure. The product features a spiral design ...

read more Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced CE Mark approval of its ACUITY(R) Spiral left ventricular lead for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, both of which treat heart failure. The product features a spiral design read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

BIOTRONIK Launches Largest Worldwide Clinical Trial Using Wireless Home Monitoring Technologies

Categorie : Cardiovascular / Cardiology
BIOTRONIK, the pioneer in remote monitoring technologies for patients with cardiac devices, announced the launch of the landmark IMPACT Study (The IMPACT of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring Guided Anticoagulation on Stroke Risk in Patients with Implanted ICD and CRT-D devices). The first patient was enroll ...

read more BIOTRONIK, the pioneer in remote monitoring technologies for patients with cardiac devices, announced the launch of the landmark IMPACT Study (The IMPACT of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring Guided Anticoagulation on Stroke Risk in Patients with Implanted ICD and CRT-D devices). The first patient was enroll read more Tue Mar 2008 Tue Mar 2008

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