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Heart Care News - Hub Page
With so many new developments in the field of cardiovascular medicine happening every day, it is important for you and your family to keep abreast of the latest healthcare news.
Here, you will find the latest healthcare news and information as it relates to the many different types of heart disease, prevention, treatments, and research. For more information, always consult your physician.
October 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsWhispering Stroke Can Cause Harm A surprisingly high number of Americans may suffer "whispering" strokes - attacks whose symptoms are so mild that they often go ignored, says a study in the medical journal Stroke. |
September 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsYour Heart Health - Get Started Now Adopting a heart-healthy lifestyle makes a difference, even if the change does not come until middle age, say researchers in the American Journal of Medicine. |
August 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsDeadly Heart Attacks Need Quick Treatment The American Heart Association (AHA) is launching a community-based program to reduce the toll of the deadliest kind of heart attack. |
July 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsControlling High Blood Pressure Still a Problem for Many Although most Americans with high blood pressure are taking steps to combat the potentially deadly condition, only 30 percent have it under control, say researchers in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). |
June 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsImplantable Defibrillator Offers an Improved Quality of Life Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) help heart disease patients live longer, lead more active lives, and enjoy a quality of life comparable to that of average Americans, according to a study in the journal Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. |
May 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsNew Procedure Helps Remove Deep Vein Blood Clots A new non-surgical treatment for the removal of blood clots appears to be safer, faster, and more effective than traditional therapies, according to a report from the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting. |
April 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsAcute Stroke Diagnosis Helped with MRI Test Comparison of two imaging techniques for the emergency diagnosis of acute stroke shows that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide a more sensitive diagnosis than computed tomography (CT) for acute ischemic stroke, according to a report in The Lancet. |
March 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsHeart Risks and Metabolic Syndrome Linked A cluster of cardiac factors known as "metabolic syndrome" is a strong indicator of increased risk of heart disease, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). |
February 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsWaltzing Your Way to a Stronger Heart Why walk your way to better heart health when you can waltz? That is the question posed by researchers who have found that waltzing improves heart function and quality of life among chronic heart failure patients. |
January 2007 - Heart Care Online NewsStroke Patients Benefit from "Contraint" Therapy Stroke patients who receive constraint-induced movement therapy, a rehabilitative technique that restrains the less-impaired arm, show significant improvement in arm and hand function, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). |
December 2006 - Heart Care Online NewsStatin Therapy During Heart Attack Has Long-term Benefits, Too Early, aggressive treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin medications gives significant long-term benefits for people who suffer heart attacks or other acute coronary events, says a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine. |
November 2006 - Heart Care Online NewsEarly Symptoms May Foretell "Sudden Cardiac Death" "Sudden cardiac death" often is not all that sudden, and lives can be saved by training people about the symptoms of impending cardiac arrest and what action to take, according to a report in the journal Circulation. |
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