Porter Recognized for Successful Treatment of Heart FailurePortageLifePorter Hospital was recently awarded the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Bronze Quality Achievement Award. Presented by the American Heart Association, the award recognizes…

Volunteers for heart patients requiredWishaw PressLEADING medical charity Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland are seeking volunteers to help with their pioneering heart failure support service in North Lanarkshire. The charity hope that finding Heart Failu…

Saint Thomas Heart Opens New Ventricular Assist Device Center; One of Only 33 …MarketWatch (press release)The center, which is one of only 33 dedicated VAD centers in the United States, will meet the needs of the sickest heart failure patients in Mid…

Augusta Free PressRMH doc first in state to implant new CRT-D therapy deviceAugusta Free PressRMH electrophysiologist Robert VerNooy, MD, has successfully implanted a new type of heart pacing device that helps doctors better treat patients diagnosed wi…

Mortality climbs with rising PA pressure in heart failure: Community-based studyTheHeart.OrgRochester, MN – Elevated pulmonary-artery (PA) pressures in heart-failure patients in the community are common and independently predict outcomes, suggests a pr…

PR Web (press release)Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, Receives “Gifted Educator Award” From the American …PR Web (press release)Dr. Narula is a renowned translational researcher and educator in clinical cardiology and imaging, known for his contributions …

Heart failure awareness event plannednwitimes.comLAPORTE | Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital dieticians, clinicians, fitness staff and heart failure nurses have joined together to hold the second annual heart failure awareness event from 10 am…

New York Daily NewsFunk legend Jimmy Castor dies in Las Vegas at 71TheNewsTribune.comA funk and pop saxophonist best known for "It's Just Begun" has died of apparent heart failure in a Las Vegas hospital. The Associated Press LAS VEGAS

Rapid diagnosis of severe kidney damageEurekAlert (press release)How does a doctor determine whether or not an emergency-room patient has acute kidney injury? Using tests currently available in the hospital, this question is often difficult to answer. …

RMC receives awards from AHA's Get With The GuidelinesThe Tand D.comMaggie BoBo, director of quality management at the American Heart Association, recently presented the Regional Medical Center with the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Silver …