| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today |
Racial Disparities Persist In Hospice Use Even as medical caregivers try to change practices, racial disparities in hospice care continue, according to a study in the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine... |
Geisinger Collaborates On National Research Project: Investigators To Study The Care, Outcomes Of Young Women With Heart Disease Geisinger Health System and Yale School of Medicine investigators are researching how young people recover from heart attacks through VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes in Young AMI Patients), a research project funded by the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute... |
Scivanta Medical Corporation Announces Results For Initial Clinical Trial For The Scivanta Cardiac Monitoring System Scivanta Medical Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SCVM), announced that the results of its initial clinical trial for the Scivanta Cardiac Monitoring System (SCMS) clearly indicate that the SCMS can accurately measure cardiac performance as expected by the company. This clinical trial was performed at Kaleida Health/Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, New York... |
BG Medicine And Abbott To Develop Galectin-3 Test For The I-STAT(R) System 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... |
ECG Screening Of Hyperactive Children Borderline Cost-effective Evaluating children for underlying heart problems before prescribing stimulant medications can identify children at risk for sudden cardiac death, but electrocardiogram (ECG) screening is of borderline cost-effectiveness compared to current practice, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association... |
Medicine To Lower Blood Pressure Significantly Decreases Risk For Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke A long-acting ACE inhibitor used to reduce blood pressure significantly decreased the risk for cardiovascular disease, including stroke, in normal weight, overweight and obese patients, according to research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association... |
DASH Diet, Exercise, Calorie Restriction May Help Improve Mental Function, Heart Health In Overweight, Hypertensive Adults 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... |
Racial Differences In Hospice Use For Heart Failure Building on previous studies that found racial differences in hospice use, a new study from the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife and Boston University School of Medicine finds that blacks and Hispanics use hospice for advanced heart failure at a rate of up to 50 percent less than whites, despite a markedly higher rate of incidence of the disease in these populations... |
Intermountain Healthcare And Toshiba Announce Ultrasound Substudy Of FaCTor64 - Speckle Tracking By Echo Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality among Type 2 diabetics and claims the lives of millions each year, with many diabetics experiencing their first "symptom" as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many with the disease are asymptomatic, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc... |
Accumetrics To Host Industry-Expert Theater Presentation At 59th Annual American College Of Cardiology 2010 Scientific Sessions Accumetrics, Inc., a privately-held developer and marketer of the VerifyNow® System, the first rapid and easy-to-use diagnostic system for measuring platelet reactivity to multiple antiplatelet agents (e.g. Plavix® and aspirin), announced that the company will host an industry expert theater presentation on Monday, March 15, during the 59th annual American College of Cardiology Meeting... |
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