Topic: The Cleveland Clinic

In the United States and Europe, estimated each year 15 million people go to emergency rooms with symptoms of a heart attack (Build-up of fatty deposits on the vessel walls of the heart, cutting off blood supply leading to a heart attack ...
If you want to choose the best doctor to treat depression then you may want to consider searching around the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, because they are one of the top hospitals in the country and seem to be the best at doing ...
7/14/2010 Print E-mail When patients are readmitted within 30 days of a hospital stay, it is generally considered a sign of poor quality care and wasteful spending on the hospital's part. The new information shows how often Medicare patients with heart failure ...
In patients who undergo cardiac surgery, lower socioeconomic position -- but not race -- is associated with a significantly increased risk of mortality, according to a study published online April 6 in Circulation: Colleen G. Koch, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic, and ...

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But if you or a loved one is among the 5.8 million Americans living with heart failure, even if it's advanced, you should know that simple self-care measures can effectively help curb fatigue, shortness of breath, swelling, and other symptoms.. "Heart failure ...

Signs of Success in Home Medical Monitoring

Connecting patients and their physicians through the internet might help cut down on office visits, according to results of a pilot project announced today. Data from those devices was then uploaded to the patient's HealthVault record, a personal medical record system developed ...
Passengers embarking on cruises who are at risk for cardiovascular events should have a pre-cruise medical evaluation and bring along a copy of their electrocardiogram if abnormal, according to a study in the Jan. 15 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.. ...
In patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, once-daily oral fingolimod is more effective than once-weekly intramuscular interferon injection at preventing relapses, according to a study published online Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine.. Jeffrey A. Cohen, M.D., of the Cleveland ...
stick with rehab.People who get all 36 sessions of cardiac rehabilitation that most Medicare plans cover are less likely to die or suffer a heart attack in the next three to four years than people who have fewer sessions, a new study ...
The number of angioplasty procedures a hospital performs affects the median door-to-balloon time, and use of evidence-based treatments, but in-hospital mortality rates do not improve with higher volumes, according to a study published in the Nov. 25 issue of the Journal of ...
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