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CPR Without Mouth-To-Mouth Rescue Breathing May Be Better For Many Victims Of Cardiac Arrest
A leading expert in cardiopulmonary resuscitation says two new studies from U.S. and European researchers support the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth, or rescue breathing by bystanders and using "hands-only" chest compressions during the life-saving practice, better known as CPR...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked To Arterial Stiffness In Black Teens
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with arterial stiffness, a risk factor for heart disease and stroke, in black teens according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Black teens taking vitamin D supplementation of 2,000 international units (IU) per day had a decrease in central arterial stiffness...

American Red Cross Statement On Compression-Only CPR
"Articles published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) cite a pair of studies on Compression-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), sometimes called continuous chest compressions, Hands-Only CPR, or cardio cerebral resuscitation (CCR). "These articles validate the American Red Cross guidance on Compression-Only CPR...

Statement From American Heart Association President Ralph Sacco, M.D. On Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approval Of Labor-HHS-Education Bill
The $1 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee is a much needed boost to heart disease and stroke research and a welcome source of revenue for the research community in this challenging fiscal environment...

Millions Of Americans In Early Stages Of Kidney Disease Need Stroke Monitoring
Millions of Americans in the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at an increased risk of having atrial fibrillation (AF) - a major risk factor for stroke - according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center...

Trophos Publishes The Identification And Characterization Of The Novel Cardioprotective Compound, TRO40303
Trophos SA a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announcedthat a publication entitled "TRO40303 (3,5-seco-4-nor-cholestan-5-one oxime-3-ol), a new cardioprotective compound, inhibits mitochondrial permeability transition" was published ...

Transporting Patients Directly To PCI-Capable Hospitals Best Strategy For Treating Deadliest Heart Attack
To improve emergency care for heart attack patients, new research suggests that expanding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capacity at hospitals is less effective than using emergency medical services (EMS) to transport patients directly to existing PCI centers...

Insurers Test At-Home Technology, Monitoring Devices To Help Cut Heart Failure Hospitalizations
The Wall Street Journal: "Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction. The idea is for heart patients to take readings like their weight, blood pressure and other key metrics using wireless and other technologies; the data are then transmitted to a case manager or medical care giver...

New Approach In Early Detection Of Atherosclerotic Changes In Vascular Systems
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease are the major causes of death in the world. Atherosclerotic plaque, the narrowing of blood vessels, causes audible turbulence in the bloodstream. Standard and electronic stethoscopes are designed to listen to heart and lung signals between 10-300 Hz...

The Methodist Hospital Opens Country's Most Advanced Robotic Operating Room
The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center opened the country's most advanced hybrid, robotic operating room. The new suite integrates advanced robotics, imaging and navigation with surgery to offer patients the least invasive and safest surgical and interventional treatments for cardiovascular disease...

Cerenis Therapeutics And Novasep Awarded 10.7M Euros Funding From The French Government For The Development CER-001, An HDL Mimetic
Cerenis Therapeutics SA (Cerenis), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel high-density lipoprotein (HDL) therapies to treat cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases, and Groupe Novasep (Novasep), a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industries, announce today that they have received French Government funding through OSEO to finance the dev...

Three Classification Tools To Diagnose Heart Problems
A statistical analysis of publicly available heart rate data using three classification tools - Random Forests, Logistic Model Tree and Neural Network - could lead to a rapid and precise way to diagnose heart problems, according to research in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare...

Performance Intervention At Outpatient Cardiology Practices Improves Heart Failure Care
A study led by UCLA tested a new performance intervention to help improve adherence to national guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure patients in an outpatient setting. Heart failure is a chronic, progressive disease that impacts millions and results in substantial morbidity, mortality and the use of significant healthcare resources and costs...

Surgery Or Stenting For Carotid Artery Disease? Question Remains
A review of scientific studies that compares two treatments for preventing strokes due carotid artery disease provides no clear answer on which treatment is better, a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician reports in an editorial in today's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine...

Preventing Heart Problems While Keeping A Cool Head
Max Planck researchers explain the cause of the flushing effect arising from cholesterol treatment with nicotinic acid. Cholesterol influences the health of our hearts and blood vessels. Conventional treatment attempts to reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, in the blood plasma...