A telephone-based collaborative care model helped manage depression and anxiety, and improved health-related quality of life in patients with heart disease.
Apr 21, 2014
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Heart patients with beliefs about health that aren't based on medical evidence are more likely to skip sessions of cardiac rehabilitation, new research suggests.
Apr 14, 2014
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Giving patients steroids at the time of heart surgery does not improve health outcomes and appears to put them at greater risk of having a heart attack in the days following surgery, according to research presented at the ...
Mar 31, 2014
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George Washington University (GW) researcher Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D., has invented a new organ to help return blood flow from veins lacking functional valves. A rhythmically contracting cuff made of cardiac muscle cells surrounds ...
Mar 27, 2014
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There has been a sharp decline since 2006 in the use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI; an imaging procedure used to determine areas of the heart with decreased blood flow), a decrease that cannot be explained ...
Mar 25, 2014
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A BBC report has uncovered that nearly half of the reviews for a single NHS trust on NHS Choices were submitted from the trust's own computers. The reviews had been provided by Patient Opinion, which gathers online comments ...
Mar 24, 2014
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For many people with advanced cardiac insufficiency, a heart transplant may be their only hope. e. But waiting for a donor heart to come along is a race against time. Patients who remains active and stay in good shape psychologically ...
Mar 6, 2014
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The Justice Department says Boston Scientific Corp. and its Guidant subsidiaries will pay $30 million to settle allegations that Guidant knowingly sold defective heart devices that health care facilities implanted in Medicare ...
Oct 17, 2013
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A review study published today finds that financial incentives –as modest as $5 per week – can increase the amount of exercise people do.
Sep 17, 2013
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Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a genetic factor that blocks the blood vessel inflammation that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other potentially life-threatening events.
Sep 4, 2013
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