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Combination implant appears to help more heart-failure patients
The CRT-D, part automated defibrillator, part cardiac resynchronization device, reduced hospitalizations in milder cases. But issues including cost have some questioning how widely it should be used. An implantable device that shocks an erratically...
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Are Intravenous Treatments Safe? New Research Raises Doubts
German scientists identified serious and previously misunderstood contaminants that bring the safety and efficacy of intravenous treatments into question. In a new report, they show how a common intravenous treatment...
New Hope for Deadly Childhood Bone Cancer
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have shed new light on Ewing�s sarcoma, an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults....
U.S. Drivers Take Wheel After Binge Drinking in Bars, Clubs
More than one in 10 people who binge drinks gets behind the wheel of a car during or just after their binge. Of those, more than half had consumed their...
How Much Omega-3 Fatty Acid Do We Need To Prevent Cardiovascular Disease?
Scientists found the dose of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) that is "just right" for preventing cardiovascular disease in healthy men. In a new study, they show that 200 mg of DHA...
New developments in reproductive medicine
Three out of ten women who undergo polar body diagnosis go on to have a child. The extensive technique of polar body analysis (PBA) is described by researchers in reproductive...
New assessment quantifies risks and benefits of warfarin treatment for atrial fibrillation
Warfarin therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation - the most common type of significant heart rhythm disorder - appears to be most beneficial for the oldest patients, those who have...
Surprising rate of recurring heart attacks, strokes globally
Despite many medicines and other treatments for patients with vascular disease, a large international study shows these patients have a surprisingly high rate of recurring events such as strokes, heart...
New treatment in sight for ovarian cancer
In the future, women with metastatic ovarian cancer could be treated with a radioactive substance that can seek and destroy tumour cells. An initial study in patients conducted jointly by...
Syncope and implantable loop recorders: Good value for money?
Barcelona, Spain, 1 September 2009: The REVISE Study (Reveal in the Investigation of Syncope and Epilepsy) found that 1 in 8 adult patients in the United Kingdom, previously thought to...
Stent for life initiative
Primary angioplasty (with stent implantation) is the most effective therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but it is not available to many patients, even though most European countries have sufficient...
Video: Heat Sensor In Sports Helmets
A series of young football player deaths has drawn criticism towards coaches accused of over-working athletes. But, as Mark Strassmann reports, a new sensor in helmets may prevent further...
Diabetic patients require global care
Diabetes mellitus-associated coronary artery disease (CAD) is assuming epidemic proportions, especially in western countries. Both coronary revascularization and medical management have improved tremendously over the last decade and the respective...
Otamixaban for the treatment of patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes
Data from a phase II trial of an investigational intravenous drug designed to block the formation of blood clots shows potential to reduce the risk of death, a second heart...
New strategies for reperfusion therapy
PCI is the preferred strategy in acute myocardial infarction when performed by an experienced team as soon as possible after first medical contact.Time is essential: for P-PCI there is an...
Gene Discoveries And Heart Disease - Setting Realistic Expectations
Every week you probably see papers ( here and elsewhere) reporting the discovery of new genetic variants that affect the risk of coronary artery disease and heart attacks. It's an...
Evolutionary Game Theory: A New Approach For Cancer Treatment
A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer by...
High caffeine intake can lead to arrhythmias
Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: Coffee is routinely consumed in countries within the Mediterranean basin. Coffee, an infusion of ground, roasted coffee beans, is the most widely consumed behaviourally active substance...
Get the world on its feet: The role of exercise training
Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: Western societies are struggling to pay for their ever increasing medical budgets. In the US up to 393 billion US-$ were spent in 2005 for cardiovascular...
CABG vs. PCI: Call for multidisciplinary approach to decide in complex CAD cases
Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: Important new evidence about revascularization in patients with severe coronary artery disease can be found in the recently published interim analyses of the SYNTAX Trial of...
Heart failure: More or less malignant than cancer?
Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: A recently completed analysis of over one million hospital cases in Sweden during the period 1988 to 2004 has revealed that heart failure, relative to most...
No evidence for the routine use of aspirin in people with asymptomatic vascular events
Barcelona, Spain, August 30: The routine use of aspirin for the primary prevention of vascular events in people with asymptomatic disease cannot be supported, according to results from the Aspirin...
New oral antiplatelet agent ticagrelor first to show reduction in cardiovascular death
Barcelona, Spain, 30 August: The presentation of the PLATO (A Study of Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes), showed that ticagrelor (Brilinta®) reduced the rate of cardiovascular (CV) events (CV death,...
FDA announces cheese products recall
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of various La Fe, El Viejito and Mi Pueblito brand cheese products due to possible...
Bill Clinton praises Canadian health care
A hoarse but energetic Bill Clinton told a Toronto audience that self-deprecating Canucks may poke fun at themselves, but said people worldwide would kill to live in Canada.
New vaccine fights all flu bugs
Next time a flu pandemic hits we may not have to wait months for a vaccine, thanks to a new treatment that stops a range of viruses.
Follow directions carefully with at-home health tests
At-home test kits adhere to the same basic formula. For collection kits, patients apply blood, saliva, stool samples or bodily secretions to a paper or swab included in a...