Breakfast to benefit woman with heart failureWatauga DemocratJessica Fournier, 27, was recently diagnosed with advanced heart failure, and the fundraiser will assist her and her family with the medical costs she is facing. The breakfast will include ho…
Lack of evidence to recommend routine screening for chronic kidney diseaseNews-Medical.netCurrently there is insufficient evidence to recommend the routine screening of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in asymptomatic adults in the general population, acco…
Chemotherapy boosts heart failure/cardiomyopathy risk in breast cancer patientsFood ConsumerTuesday Sept 4, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) — Taking cancer drugs anthracycline or trastuzumab to treat breast cancer may increase risk of heart failure and cardio…
St. Luke's Hospital earns heart failure accreditationToledo Blade"Heart failure is currently the only cardiac disease that continues to increase in both incidence and prevalence," said Donna Tennant, St. Luke's administrative director…
The Star-Ledger – NJ.comStallone's son, 36, died of heart failureTimes of MaltaStallone's son, 36, died of heart failure. Star Sylvester Stallone's eldest son Sage died of heart failure, the Los Angeles county coroner's office said, add…
Biomarker for heart failure identifiedUPI.comGalactin-3 has recently been associated with cardiac fibrosis, a condition in which scar tissue replaces heart muscle, and cardiac fibrosis plays an important role in the development of heart failure, Levy s…
TCTMDRenal Denervation Shows Promise for Heart Failure, Ongoing Success Against …TCTMDBoth involved the Symplicity catheter system (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN), with one looking at its use in heart failure and the other updating a randomized trial on…
Ivabradine May Reduce HF ReadmissionsMedPage TodayIvabradine (Procoralan) added to standard heart failure therapy reduced HF readmissions by a third in patients with systolic heart failure compared with patients on standard treatment, according to a po…
Inspra® reduces risk of recurrent heart failure hospitalisationPharmacy EuropeResults of this sub-analysis showed that despite fewer deaths in the eplerenone group compared with placebo, there were fewer recurrent hospitalisations. Heart failure hospi…
TCTMDGood Outlook for Heart Failure Patients Given Ventricular Restoration DeviceTCTMDMUNICH, Germany—In patients with ischemic heart failure, percutaneously implanted device that separates healthy and damaged heart muscle and restores ventricle func…