Medicare Penalties For Readmissions Could Be A Tough Hit On Hospitals Serving …Kaiser Health NewsHospitals with the highest proportion of poor Medicare patients were nearly three times as likely as others to have substantially high readmission rates …
RTT NewsFDA Further Restricts Use of Sanofi's MultaqWall Street JournalMultaq had world-wide sales of $179 million in the first half of 2011. Early in 2011, the FDA told Sanofi to add to its label that "liver injury, including acute liver fail…
Benefits of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy in Heart FailureBiomed Middle EastNow, the European CRT Survey suggests that CRT does indeed reduce rates of death and re-hospitalisation among heart failure patients. Indeed, at one-year follow-up most pat…
BBC NewsNorth Korea in mourning as country's 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong Il dies of heart …Scottish Daily RecordIn a "special broadcast" today from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on …
North Korean TV reports 'Dear Leader' died from heart failure, the Associated …The Tokyo ReporterTOKYO (TR) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il apparently died from heart failure Dec. 17, two days before his death was officially announced, th…
The benefits of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failureEurekAlert (press release)Now, the European CRT Survey, whose follow-up results are published today in the European Journal of Heart Failure, suggests that CRT does indeed reduce rates o…
Mamata's mother passes awayTimes of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee's mother Gayatri Devi died at SSKM hospital on Saturday morning due to multi-organ failure. She was 81 and had been admitted to the hospital on November 25 with ki…
ABC NewsFirst Heart Pump For Children With Heart Failure Approved By FDAHuffington Post12/16/11 05:06 PM ET AP WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have approved the first heart pump for children with heart failure, offering an important treatment o…
Zee NewsFDA approves Berlin Heart pump for kids with heart failureHealthJockey.comDoctors usually find it difficult to catch hold of a heart donor for children suffering from heart failure. But, can patients with heart failure survive till a donor is a…
ABC NewsHeart implant is first for infants and children with life-threatening heart …Washington PostWASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have approved the first heart pump for children with heart failure, offering an important treatment option fo…