At the combined ESC Congress 2019 and World Congress at Cardiology, held in Paris, France, late breaking results, from data gleaned from analyzing the SWEDHEART registry, were presented in a Hot Line Session. The research findings reveal that preventive medications are high early after heart...
Rutgers University (RU) researchers report that people with heart disease or defective or artificial heart valves are at increased risk of developing a potentially deadly valve infection. Research findings reveal that new risk factors for this medical condition have been identified and that an increasing number...
University of Sheffield (UoS) researchers say that patients who have had emergency heart attack treatment with heart artery stenting—and have significant narrowings in their other untreated arteries—can benefit from additional stenting to help prevent future heart attacks. Over 700 UK patients took part in the UK...
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that protects the public health, approved an expanded indication for several transcatheter heart valves to include patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (Sapien 3, Sapien 3 Ultra, CoreValve...
An advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scan analysis in patients with stroke-related, small vessel disease helped predict problems with thinking, planning, organizing information, process speed memory and even dementia, according to new research study published in the Sept. 12 issue of Stroke, a journal of the...
Location, Location, Location. This quote is often tied to real estate. But a newly released study ties both location and availability of time of need to surviving cardiac arrest. Researchers note that Automated External Defibrillators (AED) are often placed in areas of low risk and...
A newly released report says that many factors are propelling the wound care management device market including the growing demand for faster recovery of wounds, rising incidences of chronic wound, increase in the number of surgeries, and the growing occurrence of diabetes, that is expected...
Data obtained from more than a million people found that genetic liability to insomnia may increase the risk of coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke, primary associated with an increased risk of large artery stroke, according to a new study, “Genetic Liability to Insomnia...