Topic: Cardiovascular Medicine
A London hospital has won its High Court battle over health authorities' plans to close down its children's heart surgery unit.Lawyers for the Royal Brompton in Chelsea, west London, argued that a consultation exercise launched by the Joint Committee of the Primary ...
(Reuters) - Edwards Lifesciences Corp, which last week became the first company to be approved to sell a less-invasive replacement heart valve in the United States, said on Monday it received conditional approval to expand its study for the next version of ...
(Reuters) - Regulators have approved the sale of Edwards Life Sciences Corp's heart valve for patients deemed too sick to have open-heart surgery.A clinical trial found that patients receiving the Sapien valve experienced two and a half times more strokes and eight ...
(Reuters) - AtriCure Inc's device for treating a heart rhythm disorder is safe and effective, but its trial size and design raise some concerns, U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers said.AtriCure Synergy Ablation System is approved for ablation of heart tissue during ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Want to reduce stress and improve mental focus? A new app that promotes slow breathing may help.Called MyCalmBeat, the app uses a heart rate monitor that attaches to the ear to detect a person's optimal breathing rate, or resonant ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using CT scans of coronary arteries to help determine a person's chance of getting heart disease may be worth the costs and potential risks in men, but doesn't seem to be cost-effective in women.That's according to a ...
Cases of heart disease in the United States have declined in the last several years, down to six percent of the population in 2010 compared to 6.7 percent in 2006, health authorities said Thursday.The drop is likely due to better eating and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children and teenagers who complain of chest pain only rarely have a heart problem causing it, a study published Monday suggests.What's more, researchers say, relatively simple steps -- including a physical exam, taking a family history and ...
New York (Reuters Health) - Urban cyclists may be exposed to more than twice as much black carbon from vehicle exhaust as pedestrians, a small new study suggests.By examining airway cells in sputum samples from ten people, researchers in London found black ...
(Reuters) - Elderly men with naturally higher levels of testosterone may be less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those men with lower levels of the hormone, according to a study.Findings published in the Journal of the American College ...
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