Archive: 04/04/2016
Mixed results on benefits of antiarrhythmic drugs for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Paramedics often give heart rhythm stabilizing drugs to patients who are suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest when they fail to regain a stable heart rhythm after electrical shock treatment. In a study presented at the ...
Apr 4, 2016
Device that detects congestion in the lung improves heart failure outcomes
In patients with heart failure, use of an investigational device that monitors the accumulation of fluid in the lungs appeared to cut heart failure-related hospitalizations by more than half, meeting the study's primary endpoint, ...
Apr 4, 2016
No improvements with losmapimod after heart attack
Patients taking losmapimod, an anti-inflammatory drug currently being developed, for 12 weeks following a heart attack did not show improvements in the trial's primary endpoint, the rate of cardiovascular death, subsequent ...
Apr 4, 2016
UCI personalized ratings app may improve patient's choice of nursing home
A new app created at the University of California, Irvine can improve a patient's choice of a nursing home. This is important, because when rating quality measures for nursing homes, patients and experts at the Centers for ...
Apr 4, 2016
New device for heart failure patients fails to improve primary outcomes
A new implantable medical device intended to help patients with heart failure by stimulating the vagus nerve did not significantly reduce rates of heart failure-related hospitalization or death from any cause in a study presented ...
Apr 4, 2016
A chink in the armor of breast cancer cells
Working with human breast cancer cells, a team of scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have successfully turned off a misbehaving protein that fuels the growth of a particularly aggressive, ...
Apr 4, 2016
Cancer research shows promise for combating deadly lung cancer
A study by researchers at Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has found that blocking the blood supply of small cell lung cancer tumors may help reduce their growth and delay the regrowth process after ...
Apr 4, 2016
Engaging patients and the public with health care evidence
At a time when public health agencies and health care providers are striving to make health care and health policy decisions on the basis of evidence, it is important for patients and the public to engage with the production, ...
Apr 4, 2016