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New Tool to Eliminate 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Heart Failure Patients
March 10, 2013 Researchers have developed an innovative tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the ... > full story -
Store Donated Blood for More Than 3 Weeks? Say NO (Nitric Oxide)
March 10, 2013 Transfusion of donated blood more than three weeks old results in impaired blood vessel function, a new study of hospital patients shows. Blood banks now consider six weeks to be the maximum ... > full story -
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Coronary Artery Disease: Hybrid Revascularization Has Similar Rate of Adverse Events as Stenting, Study Suggests
March 10, 2013 The first multicenter study of hybrid revascularization shows that the emerging procedure for treating coronary artery disease has a similar rate of major adverse events in the first year, compared ... > full story -
ECG Screening for Competitive Athletes Would Not Prevent Sudden Death, Experts Say
March 10, 2013 The risk of cardiovascular sudden death was very small and only about 30 percent of the incidence were due to diseases that could be reliably detected by pre-participation screening, even with ... > full story -
Coronary Intervention Procedures: Validated Pre-Procedure Risk Score Reduces Bleeding Complications and Can Shorten Stays
March 10, 2013 A clinical decision support tool helped physicians identify patients at high risk of bleeding complications prior to undergoing a coronary intervention procedure and helped guide the use of bleeding ... > full story -
Novel Approach to Treating Children With Irregular Heart Beat
March 10, 2013 Reduced costs, favorable outcomes with three-catheter ablation procedure in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White ... > full story -
Early Detection of MS Treatment Complication May Improve Survival
March 10, 2013 The drug natalizumab is effective for treating multiple sclerosis (MS), but it increases the risk of a rare but potentially fatal brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ... > full story -
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Can Hormone Help Treat Multiple Sclerosis Long-Term?
March 10, 2013 A new study suggests that treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) may be helpful for people whose multiple sclerosis (MS) is not well-controlled through their regular ... > full story -
Newly Recognized Heart Cardiomyopathy Is Not Always Benign
March 9, 2013 Even though a newly recognized cardiomyopathy, which mainly impacts women, is typically treatable, Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy can also be deadly when compounded by other co-morbidities, such as heart ... > full story -
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More Rapid Test for Group B Strep Successful
March 8, 2013 A more rapid laboratory test for pregnant women to detect potentially deadly Group B strep (GBS) has been successful at identifying GBS colonization in six and a half hours, according to new ... > full story
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