For acute myocardial infarction patients wondering if the next heart attack is the big one, maybe smoking marijuana relieves some of that stress and anxiety,...
Stroke prevalence is higher in the United States than in Europe across all socioeconomic groups, but African Americans and poor Americans appear to be at a...
The FDA has now identified the presence of a contaminant in the batches of Baxter heparin that have been associated with an increased rate of adverse...
Circulating antibodies against angiotensin II has been shown to be a safe and well-tolerated approach to controlling blood-pressure levels in patients with...
When they were first presented in 2006, results from the Migraine Intervention with Starflex Technology (MIST) trial suggested that patent foramen ovale (PFO)...
Metabolic syndrome may be a "predisposing factor for the development of depression," Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry for...
Maximal doses of rosuvastatin are more effective than maximal doses of atorvastatin in lowering direct LDL cholesterol and small dense LDL cholesterol,...
New research shows that cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for stroke in China, accounting for 1 in 7 strokes. While research in Western populations has...
An investigation of the characteristics and burden of cardiovascular disease in an urban African community provides concrete evidence that heart disease is...
A nonˇVlaboratory-based risk method that uses information easily obtained in one outpatient visit can predict cardiovascular disease outcomes as accurately as...
A new regimen of "dose-dense" chemotherapy plus the HER-2 antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin, Genentech/Amgen) has shown low levels of cardiotoxicity in the...
One-year results from the ABSORB bioabsorbable everolimus stent (BVS) trial, now published in the March 15, 2008 issue of the Lancet, demonstrate the...
The contaminant found in samples of heparin that had been linked to an increase in adverse reactions has now been identified as oversulfated chondroitin...
Measuring maximum carotid plaque thickness helps predict the risk of vascular events in a multiethnic population, and the measurement may be used as a "simple...
The FDA has granted market clearance to the automated VIDAS NT- proBNP assay for measuring serum or plasma levels of the N-terminal fragment of B-type...
The theory that treatment with thiazolidinediones (TZDs) is associated with a decrease in circulating osteoprotegerin and a lower prevalence of silent...
Combination therapy with simvastatin and fenofibrate is better than monotherapy with either drug for treating mixed dyslipidemia in patients with type 2...
In non-diabetics who are at risk for developing diabetes, treatment with metformin leads to modest improvements in weight, lipid profiles and fasting glucose,...
Hospitals that participate in clinical trials appear to provide better care for ACS patients than hospitals that do not participate in clinical trials,...
Severely obese adolescents who undergo bariatric surgery experience substantial improvements in cardiac geometry, left ventricular mass, and diastolic function...
A new study of pioglitazone (Actos, Takeda Pharmaceuticals) suggests that it can prevent progression of atherosclerosis and produce meaningful improvements in...
New data from the Avoiding Cardiovascular Events in Combination Therapy in Patients Living with Systolic Hypertension (ACCOMPLISH) trial were presented today...
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and WebMD announced this week their joint initiative to help educate both clinicians and patients about cardiovascular...
Children from families with low socioeconomic status who undergo heart transplantation have twice the risk for graft failure as pediatric heart recipients from...
A St Louis cardiologist is calling upon the US FDA to reconsider a black-box warning it placed on ultrasound contrast agents at the end of last year, following...
Almost 16 months after an FDA hearing into drug-eluting stent (DES) safety emphasized the need for a randomized clinical trial to determine, once and for all,...
The US Food and Drug Administration has market-approved regadenoson (Lexiscan), a selective A2A adenosine-receptor agonist, for resting stress-myocardial...
The new wave of left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs), none yet approved for sale in the US but some available in Europe, go for small size and greater...
A new study shows that the radiation emitted by cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) varies widely, depending on a number of variables, and that...
High serum total cholesterol levels in midlife increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease 3 decades later, new research shows. Alzheimer's disease was...
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