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18 hrs ago | WTAJ

New Heart Failure Treatment

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.

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Related Topix: Health, Kidney Cancer, Henry, MD, Medicine

21 hrs ago | Business Journal

Humana testing technology for congestive heart failure in Ohio

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 .

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Related Topix: Health

Yesterday | MediLexicon

Variations In Quality And Outcomes Of Care In Teaching And Safety-Net Hospitals

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.

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Related Topix: Heart Attack

Tue Jun 18, 2013

CNN

Ed Koch's tombstone corrected

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

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Related Topix: Health, US Politics, Rudy Giuliani, US News, New York, NY

PhysOrg Weblog

Researcher studies protein's link to heart disease

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.

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Related Topix: Heart Disease, Health, University of Arizona, Biology, Science, University of Washington

Examiner.com

Ask a Health Advocate: How can an advocate help me manage a chronic 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.

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Related Topix: Metabolic Syndrome

MSNBC

Diet products contain dangerous drugs, FDA warns

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

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Meridia, Sibutramine (generic), US News, Liberal Political News

Burnley Citizen

Hapton heart charity to lobby government

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.

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Related Topix: Health

RedOrbit

Study Says Two Drug Types May Combat Obesity...

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Hypertension, Health, Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes

The Guardian

Treatment options available for men facing andropause

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

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Related Topix: Menopause, Medicine, Zinc, Supplement, Prostate Cancer

Athens Banner-Herald

Doctors at ARMC perform atrial ablation on cardiac patients

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Athens, GA, Health

Mon Jun 17, 2013

SFGate

Koch's tombstone engraved with wrong birth date

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

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Related Topix: Health, Washington Heights, Washington Heights, NY, Entertainment, Television

PhysOrg Weblog

Study identifies protein essential for normal heart function

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Pharmacology, UC San Diego, Health, Leukemia

Circulation

Placing a Value on New Technologies [Editorials]

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

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Related Topix: Palo Alto, CA, Startups, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Health

Cambridge Evening News

Grants of 3.7m for Cambridge University researchers to fight heart disease

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.

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Related Topix: Health

EurekAlert!

Teaching and safety-net hospitals show variations in quality and outcomes of care

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 .

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Related Topix: Heart Attack

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Tri-cityherald.com

Longtime sister city participant with Moses Lake is remembered

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.

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Related Topix: Moses Lake, WA, World News, Japan, Health

Kevin, M.D.

Fear is a primal emotion in medicine

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."

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Related Topix: Health

Cleveland.com

Wedding for hospice patient and bride worth waiting years for: Regina Brett

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

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Related Topix: Wedding, Health

Bluffton Today

NutriFusion product could reduce stroke size

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.

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Related Topix: Clemson, SC, Medical University of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, Bluffton, SC, Health, Medicine, Nutrition