USA TODAYChecklist keeps heart failure patients out of hospitalDaily CometAn old-fashioned checklist has the potential to keep patients with heart failure out of the hospital — and save Medicare billions of dollars, a small new study suggests. The ch…
MD News (press release)Borgess Medical Center Awarded Primary Stroke Center and Heart Failure …MD News (press release)Heart and stroke patients need to look no further than Borgess Medical Center for verification of top care for stroke and heart fail…
Image-Guided Ablation a Viable Treatment for Small Renal TumorsRenal and Urology News“The outcomes are comparable to partial nephrectomy,” said study investigator Roger Williams, DO, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Emory University in Atlanta. …
CTV.caFormer Vice-President Dick Cheney's Has Heart TransplantEmpowHerIn 2010, he was diagnosed with end stage heart failure. To help his heart to continue to pump adequate supplies of blood, a left ventricular assist device was implanted. Heart tr…
The GuardianCheney Operation Underscores Heart Transplant IssuesWNYCHeart transplantation has come a long way since Christiaan Barnard stitched the heart of a young woman into the chest of a middle-aged man in South Africa in 1967. That transplant reci…
New Hospitalization Data from the African-American Heart Failure Trial to be …MarketWatch (press release)The A-Heft Trial, entitled, "Combination of Isosorbide Dinitrate and Hydralazine in Blacks with Heart Failure" was published in the New…
French TribuneStem cell therapy possibly helpful in heart failure patientsMedical XpressA new study found that using a patient's own bone marrow cells may help repair damaged areas of the heart caused by heart failure, according to research present…
Boston Scientific Supports Trial to Evaluate Platinum Chromium Coronary StentsRTT News(BSX: News ) announced its support of the HORIZONS II AMI clinical trial, which is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the PROMUS Element Plus Everolimus-…
Boston Scientific Supports New Clinical Trial to Evaluate Platinum Chromium …SYS-CON Media (press release)… of the PROMUS Element™ Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium (PtCr) Coronary Stent compared to the OMEGA™ Platinum Chromium Bare-Met…
Irish TimesOrgan donations at highest level in 2011RTE.ieThe association has called for more funding for kidney transplantation given the savings it can make by getting more patients off dialysis. IKA Chief Executive Mark Murphy said that 650 people ar…