Central American sugarcane workers dying from chronic kidney diseasenewjerseynewsroom.comBY TERI GATTO Tens of thousands of manual laborers in Central America are dying of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The victims are primarily sugarcane workers. The C…
Indiana Public MediaIU Health Recognized For Heart Failure CareIndiana Public MediaBy Luyuan Zhang The IU Health System was given a recognition from The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium for its heart failure care. IU Health has various branches thro…
Procoralan® Receives European Approval for Use in Heart FailureSYS-CON Media (press release)Servier today announced that the company's heart rate lowering agent, ▼Procoralan® (ivabradine), the first selective I f channel inhibitor, has been app…
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)ST2 Values Predict Mortality and Morbidity in Heart Failure Patients: Results …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)SAN DIEGO–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Critical Diagnostics today announced publication …
MetroWest Medical Center looks to keep patients from returningMetroWest Daily NewsThat's what nurse Mary Bottachiari found with one woman who had vision problems and congestive heart failure — a disease in which the organ fails to pump properly a…
Healthy Living: Learn more about heart failureNorwich BulletinBy Cindy Arpin A common misconception is that heart failure is a heart attack. It is not. It also does not mean your heart has stopped or is even about to stop. But it is a very serious cond…
Beta blocker use in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus and systolic heart …7thSpace Interactive (press release)The prognostic benefits of beta-blockers (BB) in patients with systolic heart failure (SHF) are known but despite this, in patients wit…
mobihealthnewsStudy: Mobile phone-based heart failure monitoring convenient, easy to usemobihealthnewsA recently published study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that mobile phone-based heart failure telemonitoring was an easy to use s…
Comment on "Trends in the Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients …Archives of Internal MedicineWhile acute kidney injury (AKI), a newer term for acute renal failure, has long been recognized as a common and serious complication of hospital…
SeniorJournal.comHeart failure patients have new hopeMedical Xpress"Despite the increasing number of people affected, the prognosis for patients with heart failure has steadily improved," said Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, chairman of American Heart …