Active patient involvement during treatment of chronic heart failure, coupled with partnership with healthcare team members to provide care consistent with evidence-based guidelines, dramatically improves quality of care for chronic heart failure patients.
Iloprost is an inhaled drug currently used to treat individuals with pulmonary arterial hypertension (raised blood pressure in the blood vessels in the lungs that leads to shortness of breath, dizziness and fainting). However, the results of a new study in mice indicate that iloprost might provide an effective therapeutic for the treatment of individuals with allergic asthma.
West Virginia University and the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency have announced the results of their ground breaking West Virginia Games for Health research project.
The first US national survey of individuals with eating disorders shows that binge eating disorder is more prevalent than either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
South Asian immigrants in America have a higher risk of heart disease than any other American population.
Rats that rode in a truck on the New York State Thruway between Rochester and Buffalo and were exposed to the same highway pollution that motorists encounter, showed a drop in heart rate and effects on the autonomic nervous system, according to a study published this month in the journal Inhalation Toxicology.
An easy-to-use in home monitoring device for patients is changing the way doctors monitor the health of patients with implanted defibrillators.
The American Heart Association will kick off National Heart Month with a free Go Red For Women event being held at First Indiana Plaza, 135 N. Pennsylvania Street.
Garlic has been hailed a wonder drug for centuries and has been used to prevent gangrene, treat high blood pressure, ward off common colds and is even believed by some to have cancer-fighting properties.
Australian scientists have developed a drug that may stop people from dying of septic shock after surgery preventing kidney failure brought on by post-operative complications.