Home monitoring for heart failure can help manage condition, reduce costsDaily BreezeBy Stephanie Cary, Staff Writer Dolores Davis has been hospitalized at least four times for congestive heart failure since December 2010. As excessive as that may soun…
St. Luke's recognized for stroke, heart failure treatmentsThe Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)St. Luke's has been designated as a Primary Stroke Center and Heart Failure Certified. St. Luke's is the only Iowa hospita…
Heart failure requires constant managementJoliet Herald NewsBy Jeanne Millsap For The Herald-News February 14, 2012 9:32PM For patients with heart failure, regular exercise and other lifestyle changes to help lose or control weight are a must. Marlene …
Medgadget.comMedtronic Starts Trial with Symplicity Renal Denervation System for Chronic …Medgadget.comby Wouter Stomp on Feb 15, 2012 • 2:10 pm Medtronic has announced that it will start a trial with its Symplicity renal denervation system in pati…
Corporate VCs crowd into $43M round for CelladonFierceBiotechThe money will be used to engineer late-stage work on Mydicar, a heart failure treatment that recently gained fast-track status at the FDA. It also marks a major milestone for Celladon, which…
ST2 Values Predict Mortality and Morbidity in Heart Failure Patients: Results …FierceBiotechSAN DIEGO, Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Critical Diagnostics today announced publication in the European Journal of Heart Failure of an analysis describing…
Kidney stones: Often harbingers of 'silent epidemic' of chronic kidney diseaseOak RidgerKidney stones are often harbingers of a "silent epidemic" of chronic kidney disease with as many as 20 million Americans at risk. Increasing rates…
Heart failure kills moms-to-beWXXA"It's always my most anxious moment as a heart failure physician," Dr. Dunlap said. "Because I have the chance to lose two patients instead of one." And the moment that almost took Amanda Hodge&…
Health NewstrackVitamin D therapy does not improve certain cardiac measures for patients with …Science CodexCHICAGO – Patients with chronic kidney disease who received the vitamin D compound paricalcitol for up to 48 weeks did not show improvement …
TCTMDAcute Kidney Injury Incidence Down in AMI Patients Despite High Risk FactorsTCTMDBy Yael Maxwell Over almost a decade, the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) decreased in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) despite the rising preva…