Piedmont accredited as Heart Failure and Chest Pain CenterNeighborNewspapers.comIn a news release Friday, Piedmont Hospital in Buckhead announced it recently achieved accreditation as a Heart Failure and Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain…
Medical Center Receives Award for Treatment of Heart Failure PatientsGant DailyHERSHEY – Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently received the 2012 Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Hea…
Aspirin vs warfarin: which is better?Gainsborough StandardThe news is based on a well-designed trial looking at aspirin and warfarin that compared their safety and effectiveness when treating patients who had heart failure but a normal heartbeat. Heart…
SOHHNews: UPDATE: Usher's 11 Year-Old Stepson Dies From Heart FailureSOHHKile was taken off of life support Saturday morning and died from heart failure according to a family friend, weeks after the 11-year-old was involved in a tragic Jet Ski acci…
SOHHSources: Usher's stepson pulled from life supportWSB AtlantaA family friend told Channel 2 Action News the stepson of singer Usher Raymond died of heart failure on Saturday morning, approximately two weeks after he got hurt in a Lake Lanier acc…
Heart Failure Clinics – Beneficial But UnderusedMedical News TodayEvidence has shown that outpatient heart failure (HF) clinics reduce morbidity, mortality and health care costs. However, a new study in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Card…
TCTMDFew Hospitals Go the Distance to Reduce Readmissions for Heart Failure, AMI …TCTMDThough most hospital administrators claim their institutions seek to reduce preventable readmissions for patients with heart failure or acute myocardial infarction…
Effect of Phosphate Binders in Chronic Kidney Disease UnclearDoctors LoungeAlthough phosphate binders lower serum and urinary phosphorus and reduce progression of secondary hyperthyroidism, they also promote progression of vascular calcification, and c…
BG Medicine, Inc. Announces 510(k) Filing for the ARCHITECT Galectin-3 Assay …MarketWatch (press release)BG Medicine currently markets a manual version of its galectin-3 blood test, the BGM Galectin-3(R) test, which was cleared by the FDA as an aid i…
Research and Markets: Disease and Therapy Review: Heart FailureBusiness Wire (press release)The Heart Failure Disease and Therapy Review provides an overview of the disease and related conditions, with incidence, prevalence, and mortality numbers and p…