Archive for the ‘Heart Disease’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
A recent study raises questions about the frequency of doctors' use of elective heart angiograms, which showed no disease in almost 40 percent of patients. BusinessWeek reports: "Doctors may be sending patients too quickly for elective angiograms to detect heart disease, exposing them to radiation and driving up U.S. health-care costs, a study suggests...
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Only half of all patients at high risk of heart disease are given correct targets for lowering their cholesterol levels according to a study of 25,250 patients in Germany published online 11 March in the European Heart Journal [1]...
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Enhance National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported research to improve health, spur economic growth and innovation and science. American Heart Association patient advocates and researchers today delivered that message to members of Congress during the association's Research Saves Lives Fly-In Lobby Day...
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Current drugs used to treat heart failure and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat) have limited effectiveness and have side effects. New basic science findings from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related mechanisms...
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
BG Medicine, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) to extend its current development and commercialization collaboration to include the development of a galectin-3 test for Abbott Point of Care's i-STAT® System. Galectin-3 is a novel biomarker that may play a role in detecting the development and progression of heart failure...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The DASH diet, combined with exercise and calorie restriction, improved mental functioning by 30 percent in overweight adults with high blood pressure compared to those who didn't diet or exercise, researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
A new method of growing arteries could lead to a "biological bypass" - or a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report with their colleagues in the April issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation. Coronary arteries can become blocked with plaque, leading to a decrease in the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
A significant number of people with heart disease will benefit from less invasive transcatheter heart valve replacements in future, finds a review of updated practices in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
New Saint Louis University research has found that beta blockers, a class of drugs used to prevent the progression of heart failure and manage arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) and hypertension (high blood pressure), are underused in heart failure patients who receive implantable cardiac devices...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced publication of clinical results in the Hemodynamically Guided Home Self-Therapy in Severe Heart Failure Patients (HOMEOSTASIS) trial...
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Bystanders who perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a child with cardiac arrest increase the child's likelihood of survival, according to the largest pediatric study to date. The outcomes are similar for both chest compression alone (hands-only) CPR and CPR with chest compression and rescue breathing...
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Newly published data shows using a Respiratory Modulation Response (RMR) is a novel, non-invasive measure to quickly and accurately detect the presence of significant coronary artery disease (sCAD). Patients in the study with sCAD had a lower RMR compared to patients without, regardless of their risk factors or clinical history of angina, previous myocardial infarction (MI), or angioplasty...
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
A French investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics has explored the outcome in terms of physical functioning of coronary angioplasty...
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
A new report published in the European Journal of Heart Failure notes mortality rates as high as 10 per cent and rehospitalisation rates of 30 per cent after discharge among heart failure (HF) patients admitted to hospital. This reflects previous studies of hospitalised Medicare patients in the USA where those with HF had the highest rates of 30-day readmission of any diagnosis...
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Congenital heart disease, also known as congenital heart defect, is a general term for a series of faults in the structure of the heart and great vessels that is present from birth. In the majority of cases, the defect either obstructs blood flow in the heart or nearby vessels, or causes blood to flow through the heart in an abnormal way...
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE) experience prodromal or early warning symptoms before nearly three-quarters of their HAE attacks, according to survey findings presented at the 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting...
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
With the realization that half of the people experiencing a sudden mortal heart attack were taking aspirin on the day of their demise, researchers have begun to search for a more reliable alternative, and they may have found it in a red wine molecule called resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl)...
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not approve the additional indication for Bystolic(R) (nebivolol) tablets as a treatment for stable chronic heart failure (CHF) as requested in the company's Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA). Bystolic is currently approved in the US for the treatment of hypertension...
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Researchers have been able to see how heart failure affects the surface of an individual heart muscle cell in minute detail, using a new nanoscale scanning technique developed at Imperial College London...
Friday, February 26th, 2010
For dialysis patients, high scores on a new fatigue rating scale predict an increased risk of heart attack or other cardiovascular events, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN)...
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
A spray-on skin product and an injectable cell therapy for heart attack patients are among 17 regenerative medicine technologies that will be showcased during the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6 - 8 in Winston-Salem...