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St. Jude Medical will sponsor the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial) 10-year follow-up study, along with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
A $566,000 grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has allowed researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to continue work on an optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart.
Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center is hoping to safeguard its clinical research patients from radiation exposure by requiring CT and PET/CT equipment purchased by the NIH Clinical Center to be routinely record exposure dose in a patient's hospital-based EMR.
With the federal government putting $1.1 billion into comparative-effectiveness research, two Baylor College of Medicine scientists advocate investing in research that puts science into practice in doctors' offices and clinics across the U.S., according to a perspective in the May 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Working out on a stationary bicycle or walking on a treadmill just 25 to 30 minutes most days of the week is enough to modestly lower risk of hospitalization or death for patients with heart failure, according to the HF-ACTION trial in the April 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, has asked Department of Health and Human
Services’ inspector general to investigate the Feb. 23 theft of a
National Institutes of Health (NIH) laptop, after revealing that he is
among those approximately 3,000 heart patients whose medical
information was potentially exposed.
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A large, multicenter clinical trial comparing different resuscitation strategies, as well as the use of an impedence threshold device, has stopped enrollment, based on findings that all strategies were equally effective.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $4 million grant to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) to study the comparative effectiveness of PCI compared with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y., has been awarded a $1.9 million, five-year renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to further explore the mechanisms underlying artery disease and injury-induced blockages of blood vessels.
Adding surgical ventricular reconstruction to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) reduced the left ventricular volume, compared with CABG alone. However, the combination did not result in improved symptoms or exercise tolerance, or reduced deaths or hospitalizations, according to the STITCH trial published in the April 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Advanced Circulatory Systems has received an additional $1.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue testing two devices used in combination on those who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital.
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Middle age introduces itself in many ways; one is atrial fibrillation (AF). My onset of AF seems to have coincided with a mountain bike accident in the woods of North Carolina that resulted in some cracked ribs.
The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
There are cases presented to all physicians when we have to balance benefits of a particular treatment with concerns around safety for certain patients. In interventional cardiology, we see this dilemma with drug-eluting stents (DES). While this technology provides effective therapy for many patients with ischemia-inducing coronary lesions, there are certain patient groups that encounter problems for different reasons.