Heart Failure News

About 5.8 million Americans have heart failure, a condition that occurs when the heart can no longer pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.

Humana is using Ohio as testing ground for a new technology aimed at improving physician interaction with patients with congestive heart failure, the Dayton Business Journal reports .

Teaching hospitals with a higher intensity of physician-training activity achieve lower mortality rates, but higher hospitalization readmission rates for key medical diagnoses, reports a study in the July issue of Medical Care , published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Ed Koch speaks at the renaming of the Queensboro Bridge in his honor in May 2011.

The largest protein known to exist in the human body functions as a molecular spring, and University of Arizona researchers are gaining new insights into its role in heart disease.

Excellent question! First, for anyone who isn't sure what a chronic disease is, it's an ongoing illness that can cause limitations and greatly affect a person's life.

Fat Zero sounds like a safe, natural product, containing bee pollen and other ingredients like green tea and lotus seed.

TRUSTEES of Hapton-based charity Pumping Marvellous will travel to the Houses of Parliament today to urge MPs to recognise the catastrophic effects of heart failure.

Medications typically prescribed to treat heart failure and high blood pressure could potentially be used to battle obesity and the combination of disorders known as metabolic syndrome , according to research presented over the weekend at the Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Question: I have heard that andropause is used to describe the male equivalent to menopause.

Heyward Young of Athens likes to work in his garden, hunt, fish and play golf, but until recently was unable to fully enjoy these activities.

The late Ed Koch , who meticulously planned his own funeral, might be rolling in his grave if he saw his own tombstone.

A study by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, shows that a protein called MCL-1, which promotes cell survival, is essential for normal heart function.

From the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

Researchers will use the awards from the British Heart Foundation to investigate issues including why obesity leads to heart disease and what is behind coronary heart disease.

Teaching hospitals with a higher intensity of physician-training activity achieve lower mortality rates, but higher hospitalization readmission rates for key medical diagnoses, reports a study in the July issue of Medical Care , published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , a part of Wolters Kluwer Health .

Yukio Seino, 88, was involved in the sister city program between the cities of Yonezawa and Moses Lake from its beginning in 1982, said Doug Sly, a member of the Moses Lake Sister City Committee, on Thursday.

The stat cardiac-arrest page came through on my beeper at exactly the same moment as the hospital-wide PA system announced, "Code 411, cardiac arrest, MICU."

They met when they were 19, back in 1968, when Judith and her girlfriend saw Ralph walking down the street.

For Bluffton Today Dr. Paul "Mac" Horton, director of Clemson Institute for Economic & Community Development, Karl Kelly, director of Commercialization and Technology Incubation for Clemson's Technology Village and Mayor Lisa Sulka graduated innovator Bill Grand, CEO of NutriFusion.