Medical News
Minnesota Mom Believes In 'Power Of Prayer' As One Conjoined Twin Dies, Another In Critical Condition
Tech Times - 30 Aug 2015 13:35
One of Amber McCullough's conjoined twins died after a five-hour separation procedure. The mother from Hastings, Minnesota, has asked the public to pray for the surviving twin, who is in critical but stable condition.
Percutaneous Implantation of an Entirely Intracardiac Leadless Pacemaker
New England Journal of Medicine - 30 Aug 2015 10:00
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
Cyclosporine before PCI in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
New England Journal of Medicine - 30 Aug 2015 09:00
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
Better outcomes achieved with ESC guideline adherent antithrombotic management
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Patients with atrial fibrillation who receive antithrombotic management according to ESC guidelines have better outcomes than those who do not, according to one year follow up results fro...
Bystander CPR linked to lower nursing home admission and brain damage after cardiac arrest
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been linked to a 30 percent lower risk of nursing home admission and brain damage in survivors of cardiac arrest outside hospital in rese...
CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be conducted for at least 35 minutes
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be conducted for at least 35 minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Yoshikazu ...
Clinical trial: First treatment for 'emotional flatness' associated with schizophrenia
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Results of a clinical trial seem to show the first effective treatment for the negative symptoms -- withdrawal, lack of emotion, and apathy -- associated with schizophrenia. ...
Cold weather associated with higher risk of severe heart attack
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Cold weather is associated with a higher risk of severe heart attack, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Shuangbo Liu, adult cardiology resident at the Universit...
Cold weather linked to increased stroke risk in atrial fibrillation patients
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Cold weather is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Tze-Fan Chao, cardiolo...
Efforts to improve AED usage increase bystander defibrillation in public but not at home
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Efforts to improve automated external defibrillator (AED) usage increase bystander defibrillation in public places but not at home, reveals a study of more than 25 000 cardiac arrest pati...
Ezetimibe provides particular benefit in patients with diabetes and recent acute coronary syndrome
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 800,000 Americans die each year from heart disease and stroke. Acute coronary syndrome, which includes heart ...
Ezetimibe reduces cardiovascular events in diabetics with recent acute coronary syndrome
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Ezetimibe reduces cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes and a recent acute coronary syndrome, according to a subgroup analysis of the IMPROVE-IT trial presented at ESC Congress ...
Gene regulating severity of tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis identified
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(University College Dublin) Scientists have identified a new protein (C5orf30) which regulates the severity of tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, pain, stiffness...
Multiple risk factors cancel impact of atrial fibrillation on ischemic stroke risk
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) The impact of atrial fibrillation on ischemic stroke risk in elderly patients is eliminated with multiple risk factors, according to an 11-year study in more than 425,000 patients present...
Patient education does not impact apixaban adherence
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Adherence to the oral anticoagulant apixaban among patients with atrial fibrillation was no better for those who received an educational program compared to those who did not, results of ...
Peri-infarct pacing does not improve outcomes in patients with large myocardial infarction
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) In patients with a large myocardical infarction, pacing, with the left ventricular lead placed in the area of the lesion (peri-infarct) did not prevent further enlargement of the heart (r...
Psychotic patients distinguished from controls while watching movie 'Alice in Wonderland'
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Researchers using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) have found that even first-episode psychotic patients process information differently from a control group. To ...
Rapid, more sensitive test speeds up chest pain triage
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Patients arriving at the emergency department with chest pain suggestive of acute myocardial infarction can be triaged more quickly and more safely using a new rapid assay with refined cu...
Recruitment of leukocytes is a hallmark of stent thrombosis
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Recruitment of leukocytes is a hallmark of stent thrombosis, according to results from the PRESTIGE study presented today at ESC Congress and published in European Heart Journal. The find...
Research shows testosterone changes brain structures in female-to-male transsexuals
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Brain imaging shows that testosterone therapy given as part of sex reassignment changes the brain structures and the pathway associated with speech and verbal fluency. This r...
Study shows that food may be addictive
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) An international group of researchers have found that food craving activates different brain networks between obese and normal weight patients. This indicates that the tenden...
Surprise cardiac finding predicts future risk
EurekAlert! - 30 Aug 2015 06:00
(European Society of Cardiology) In patients with chronic ischemic heart disease, a small left ventricle with thick walls, is the strongest predictor of morphologic remodelling, which is generally considered a first step...