Heart attack patients received lifesaving treatment quickly when hospitals and communities used an integrated, rapid transfer system to get patients to a facility equipped to perform artery-opening procedures, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The National Institutes of Health has provided $11.5 million in support to the Indiana University School of Medicine for the only institutional grant looking at the cause and treatment of heart failure in children.
When human hearts are injured, as during a heart attack, healthy tissue normally can?t regrow. Researchers now demonstrate in rats that a sponge-like patch, soaked in a compound called periostin and placed over the injury, can not only get heart cells to begin dividing and making copies of themselves again, but also improves heart function.
Current PET-CT scanners with standard commercial software designed to provide images of the heart are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients, according to a study published today on the cover page of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the Indian companies to tap the vast potential for health care products in the international market by maintaining competitive pricing and high quality.
If one part of your car isn’t properly maintained, it can affect how the entire vehicle runs ? especially if you’re taking a long trip. The same can be said for the human body. That?s why, when it comes to fitness in space, it?s important to create a program addressing the whole system, parts included.
Heart attack patients received life-saving care up to an hour sooner after an Indiana hospital implemented a novel protocol to rapidly activate the cardiac catheterization lab, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Countless exercise programs claim to trim the thighs, abs and buttocks, but how many offer to reshape a flabby heart? According to new research, aerobic exercise does just that for patients with stable heart failure, literally turning an enlarged heart into a trimmer, more efficient organ for pumping blood throughout the body.
The Food and Drug Administration has given approval for a Kalamazoo, MI-based company to begin marketing a one-of-a-kind device that allows physicians to more accurately place a stent in selected coronary and renal procedures.
Paying hospitals extra money does not appear to significantly improve the way they treat heart attack patients or how well those patients do. But giving hospitals the information that they need to improve heart attack care does help.