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Topic: Cardiology

Abbott offers data on Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold trial

Abbott offers data on Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold trial

March 11, 2013 9:33 am by | 0 Comments

Abbott today announced positive long-term results for the company's innovative Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS). Three-year results from 101 patients in the second stage of the ABSORB trial were presented ... Read more
Mummies from different times, places shared key heart risk

Mummies from different times, places shared key heart risk

March 10, 2013 8:13 pm by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO (Reuters) - CT scans of 137 mummies spanning four geographies and 4,000 years of history show that hardening of the arteries was commonplace, especially in older individuals, suggesting this ... Read more
Shorter hospital stays seen in older, but not younger, heart failure patients

Shorter hospital stays seen in older, but not younger, heart failure patients

March 6, 2013 4:09 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Though fewer American adults were hospitalized with heart failure during the last decade, hospitalization rates among heart failure patients under age 55 saw the least ... Read more
Fewer heart blockages on stress tests may mean tests are overused

Fewer heart blockages on stress tests may mean tests are overused

March 4, 2013 3:35 pm by | 0 Comments

The proportion of patients who have blocked arteries show up during a stress test has dropped "enormously" over the past two decades, according to a new study.

However, researchers disagreed about ... Read more

Abiomed reimbursement update: Four commercial insurers start broad Impella coverage

Abiomed reimbursement update: Four commercial insurers start broad Impella coverage

March 4, 2013 8:16 am by | 0 Comments

Abiomed, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, today provided a reimbursement update. Abiomed announced several recent Impella coverage decisions from national payers including Humana, UnitedHealthcare, ... Read more
AHA expands venture philanthropy accelerator strategy to help life science startups survive

AHA expands venture philanthropy accelerator strategy to help life science startups survive

February 28, 2013 7:09 pm by | 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago the American Heart Association launched an accelerator to fund biotechnolgy and medical device startups to fill a crucial gap in research funding caused ... Read more
No clear benefits for kids’ blood pressure checks

No clear benefits for kids’ blood pressure checks

February 28, 2013 2:56 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's no evidence that checking kids' and teens' blood pressure - and treating them if it's high - can reduce their heart risks in adulthood, ... Read more

DNA-heart failure link discovery could help millions with disease

DNA-heart failure link discovery could help millions with disease

February 26, 2013 1:47 pm by | 0 Comments

TAMPA -- In a development that could potentially benefit millions suffering from heart failure, a research team headed by a University of South Florida doctor has identified a genetic signature ... Read more
Antibody could reduce longterm effects of myocardial infarction, cut readmissions

Antibody could reduce longterm effects of myocardial infarction, cut readmissions

February 22, 2013 9:21 am by | 0 Comments

A lean startup is developing therapeutics using a monoclonal antibody to preserve cardiac tissue and help the body heal from the scarring that can result from the restoration of blood ... Read more
Ozone levels linked to cardiac arrest

Ozone levels linked to cardiac arrest

February 20, 2013 1:38 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac arrests are more likely when levels of air pollution - especially soot-like particles and ozone - have been high in recent days or even ... Read more
Telehealth helps keep heart patients out of hospital

Telehealth helps keep heart patients out of hospital

February 17, 2013 7:53 am by | 2 Comments

NEWPORT NEWS -- When a disembodied voice in his Newport News home announces it's time to take his vital signs, Ron Day and his wife, Carol, head upstairs from the ... Read more
Heart health app wins national contest

Heart health app wins national contest

February 14, 2013 10:25 pm by | 0 Comments

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a division of Marshfield Clinic, has won a national competition for the best mobile app to improve heart health.The research foundation will receive $100,000 to support ... Read more
U.S.- wide salt reduction could prevent deaths : study

U.S.- wide salt reduction could prevent deaths : study

February 14, 2013 1:05 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The United States could prevent up to half a million deaths over the next decade if Americans cut their salt intake to within national guidelines, ... Read more
Research firm finds promise in experimental cholesterol drug

Research firm finds promise in experimental cholesterol drug

February 13, 2013 1:49 pm by | 0 Comments

AUBURN, Maine -- An experimental medicine shows great promise in treating a condition that causes sky-high cholesterol levels among some French Canadians, according to a Maine cardiologist involved in the ... Read more
St. Jude recalls wire used to help plug hole in heart

St. Jude recalls wire used to help plug hole in heart

February 12, 2013 5:08 pm by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc is recalling the wire used to put in place a device that closes openings between the two upper chambers of the heart, because of ... Read more