A leading pediatric heart surgeon is hoping that a ventricular assist device (VAD) for use in small children that is widely available in Europe will soon be...
Cardiac-surgery patients treated by senior residents are no more likely to die or return to the hospital for cardiac complications than are patients treated by...
Swedish investigators say they were surprised to find that a significant number of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have obstructive sleep apnea...
India is attempting to impose the world's largest smoking ban, with a nationwide edict prohibiting smoking in all public places that came into effect...
Patients with heart failure who are admitted to the hospital on Saturday or Sunday are about as likely to receive evidence-based therapies, have a similar...
A new economic analysis of elective endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (EVAR) in high-risk patients suggests that the minimally invasive...
A largely abandoned imaging test is providing some welcome new insights about the technology it produced: researchers in California using CT angiograms taken...
Delivering another blow to the theory that patent foramen ovale (PFO) can cause migraine headaches, researchers in Florida are reporting that in a large,...
Boston Scientific's TAXUS Liberté drug-eluting coronary stent, described as a more flexible, easier-to-deliver descendant of the paclitaxel-based TAXUS...
Taxus and Cypher stents are no different in the treatment of high- risk left main disease and are associated with relatively low rates of death, MI, and...
Cardiac surgery in patients 80 years and older often yields benefits with respect to quality of life, functional status, and life expectancy, according to a...
The noninvasive evaluation of endothelial dysfunction using color Doppler serves as a predictor and marker for future cardiovascular risk, especially in...
A decision on whether or not to approve the investigational antiplatelet agent prasugrel (Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo) in the US will not be made until the early...
Once again, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has opted not to expand Medicare coverage of carotid stenting to a broader range of high-risk...
With three beta blockers currently recommended for heart failure and entrenched in clinical practice, the FDA has agreed to consider approval of yet another....
Systemic hypothermia prior to catheterization does not decrease the risk of acute kidney damage caused by iodinated contrast agents, a new study has shown....
The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is the most influential factor in the increased incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) seen in RA patients, according...
A large meta-analysis of radial-access PCI has shown that the novel approach translates into a significant reduction in major bleeding. There were also trends...
People with diabetes and hypertension are less likely to comply with nutritional recommendations for lowering blood pressure than people with hypertension...
A new medical technology company--this time in France--has announced it is joining the sparse ranks of innovators hoping to develop the first total artificial...
African Americans with hypertensive nephrosclerosis (chronic kidney disease [CKD] caused by high blood pressure [BP]) have a higher risk of progressing to...
For patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis who also must be treated for coronary artery disease, stents provide the best 1-year survival,...
Music may speak to the heart, but it should do so via the ears: that's the message from a new analysis showing that while iPod MP3 players do not interfere...
A phase 2 trial has shown that interferon beta-1b (IFNB-1b) (Betaferon/Betaseron, Bayer Healthcare)--a drug currently used to treat multiple sclerosis...
Heart-failure patients participating in a highly structured exercise program in the HF-ACTION trial, reported here at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2008...
Researchers who fitted study subjects with "air-pollution vests" to continuously monitor exposure to both indoor and outdoor air pollutants say that people are...
In the largest and reportedly most clinically detailed population- based study of carotid endarterectomy to date, researchers outline 11 risk factors for poor...
Atherosclerosis progression as gauged by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) was unaffected by a year and a half of treatment with rosiglitazone (Avandia,...
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