The Link between Acute Liver Failure and Bariatric SurgerySacramento BeeBOSTON, Nov. 10, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Among patients with acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure (ALF), bariatric surgery was 25 times more common than in the general populat…
Cardioxyl Pharma reports $28M equity round with lead drug against heart failureFierceBiotechThe potential payoff is huge as heart failure rates rise and continue to be a leading cause of hospitalizations among the older crowd, with massive costs to the…
Medtronic announces encouraging data from heart failure studyEquities.comBLOCK HF shows a 27% relative risk reduction in the composite of death and healthcare utilization visits requiring intravenous (IV) heart failure therapy among this patient popula…
Heart failure puts Roar bottom of the tableABC OnlineMelbourne Heart has blitzed defending A-League champions Brisbane Roar 4-1 at AAMI Park on Friday night, leaving the Roar at the foot of the table for the first time in the club's history. Brisba…
Prison drug dealer died of heart failureTimes of MaltaThe convicted drug trafficker dubbed by a judge as the “queen of prison”, Josette Bickle, died of heart failure, an autopsy has revealed. However, more tests, including toxicological tests, are …
Elevated ST2 biomarker levels strongly indicate heart failure and mortality in …News-Medical.netCritical Diagnostics, makers of the Presage® ST2 Assay, announced today that during a presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions …
BLOCK-HF: Replace RV pacing with BiV in AV-block heart failureTheHeart.OrgSteve has been reporting on cardiovascular medicine continuously since IV streptokinase was the next big thing. He was a writer for Practical Cardiology and then a journalist and…
Heart Failure Patients May Be at Higher Risk for Cancer: StudyHealth.comMoreover, cancer appeared to increase the risk of death in heart failure patients by 46 percent, according to lead researcher Dr. Tal Hasin, with the cardiology department at the M…
The Acute Liver Failure Study Group Initiates Phase 2a Study of OCR-002 for …Sacramento BeeSAN DIEGO, Nov. 8, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the first patient has enrolled in a Phase 2a study to evaluate the safety an…
Next Generation Cardiac Biomarker From Critical Diagnostics Accurately …The Herald | HeraldOnline.comThe study of 1831 healthy individuals from Olmsted County, Minnesota was designed to determine whether elevated levels of ST2 in otherwise healthy pe…