Billions of dollars at stake as Canada comes to grips with soaring heart failure costs
Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Heart failure (HF) costs are headed for the economic stratosphere, even as researchers come up with simple tests and strategies to bring them back to earth. An assessment of the growing problem and a new initiative to curb costs and increase efficacy in dealing with heart failure patients when they present to emergency departments were the subject of two major studies presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2011.