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Heart failure (HF) is a condition in which a problem with the structure or function of the heart impairs its ability to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body's needs. It should not be confused with cardiac arrest or myocardial infarction.

Myocardial thinning theories upended

Regional myocardial wall thinning is not necessarily indicative of transmural myocardial infarction, a study suggests.

6 Mar 2013

Study: Obese people need to lose weight earlier in order to reduce risk of heart disease later

6 Mar 2013

Scientists discover key biochemical step underlying heart failure

Some 5.8 million Americans suffer from heart failure, a currently incurable disease. But scientists at Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Center for Translational Medicine have discovered a key biochemical step underlying the condition that could aid the development of new drugs to treat and possibly prevent it.

6 Mar 2013

New tool can help determine senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates

A UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine - and perhaps influence - senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates.

6 Mar 2013

Accenture supports Unified Clinical Organization to improve care coordination, patient outcomes

The Unified Clinical Organization, an innovative care improvement model from Trinity Health, is improving care coordination, patient outcomes and advancing standardization of care practices with support from Accenture.

6 Mar 2013

JACC: Heart Failure from American College of Cardiology and Elsevier

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) are pleased to announce that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) journals' portfolio has been expanded with the launch of JACC: Heart Failure.

5 Mar 2013

Reversal of heart damage from obesity more likely if you lose weight sooner rather than later

In a study of the impact of weight loss on reversing heart damage from obesity, Johns Hopkins researchers found that poor heart function in young obese mice can be reversed when the animals lose weight from a low-calorie diet. However, older mice, who had been obese for a longer period of time, did not regain better heart function after they were on the same low-calorie diet.

5 Mar 2013

Benefits of diastolic function improvement in heart failure questioned

The importance of left ventricular diastolic function improvement in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction has been questioned, after researchers found that treatment with spironolactone resulted in some functional improvements but failed to impact on patients’ exercise capacity.

5 Mar 2013

PsiOxus completes enrollment in MT-102 Phase II trial on cancer cachexia

PsiOxus Therapeutics, Ltd. (PsiOxus), a development stage biotechnology company, has completed patient enrollment for its Phase II clinical trial to study MT-102, a small molecule therapeutic for the treatment of cancer cachexia.

4 Mar 2013

Lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of premature death or heart attacks

Asymptomatic lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of dying prematurely or experiencing heart attacks or other cardiac events, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

1 Mar 2013

Thyroid hormone may help reduce heart damage in humans with cardiac diseases

Thyroid hormone treatment administered to rats at the time of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) led to significant reduction in the loss of heart muscle cells and improvement in heart function, according to a study published by a team of researchers led by A. Martin Gerdes and Yue-Feng Chen from New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

1 Mar 2013

Otsuka receives FDA approval for ABILIFY MAINTENA to treat schizophrenia

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) and H. Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ABILIFY MAINTENA (aripiprazole) for extended- release injectable suspension, an intramuscular (IM) depot formulation indicated for the treatment of schizophrenia.

1 Mar 2013

Telehealth enthusiasm dampened

A home-based telehealth system being pushed by the UK Government does not benefit patients with long-term conditions in terms of their quality of life or psychologic wellbeing, research has shown.

28 Feb 2013

Survival following heart transplantation associated with several patient characteristics

Survival following heart transplantation is associated with several patient characteristics, including patient education, higher social and economic satisfaction, and patient adherence with medications, according to a study published in the March 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

28 Feb 2013

Long-term treatment with spironolactone improves left ventricular diastolic function in HF patients

Among patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, long-term treatment with the medication spironolactone improved left ventricular diastolic function but did not affect maximal exercise capacity, patient symptoms, or quality of life, according to a study appearing in the February 27 issue of JAMA.

28 Feb 2013

CellAegis Devices to use autoRIC Device for Chronic Remote Ischemic Conditioning

CellAegis Devices, Inc., announced today that it has received an Investigational Testing Approval from Health Canada that allows the initiation of clinical testing in Canada of the Company's autoRIC Device for Chronic Remote Ischemic Conditioning (CRIC).

27 Feb 2013

HeartWare International fourth quarter revenue increases 42% to $32.7 million

HeartWare International, Inc., a leading innovator of less invasive, miniaturized circulatory support technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of advanced heart failure, today announced revenue of $32.7 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, a 42% increase compared to $23.1 million in revenue for the same period of 2011.

27 Feb 2013

Truven Health Analytics names UCSD Medical Center in 100 Top Hospitals list

University of California, San Diego Medical Center has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for the second time by Truven Health Analytics, formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters.

27 Feb 2013

Complementary medicine risks: an interview with Dr Andrew Boyden, NPS MedicineWise

Complementary medicines include products containing herbs, vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, homoeopathic medicines, certain aromatherapy products and traditional Chinese medicines. For this reason they are also called herbal, natural or alternative medicines.

26 Feb 2013

Research roundup: Patients hesitant to focus on costs; Increase in primary care demand is uneven

One way to contain health care spending is to get patients involved in weighing costs of treatment options with their doctors. Researchers recruited 211 medically insured participants to assess their willingness to consider costs when choosing treatments. The authors found that participants generally "preferred better care, even when the relative benefit it offered was marginal, and even when told that the second-best choice still met the threshold of 'good enough' care from a clinician's perspective.

26 Feb 2013

Heart Failure News and Research

Further Reading

Myocardial thinning theories upended

Study: Obese people need to lose weight earlier in order to reduce risk of heart disease later

Scientists discover key biochemical step underlying heart failure

New tool can help determine senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates

Accenture supports Unified Clinical Organization to improve care coordination, patient outcomes

JACC: Heart Failure from American College of Cardiology and Elsevier

Reversal of heart damage from obesity more likely if you lose weight sooner rather than later

Benefits of diastolic function improvement in heart failure questioned

PsiOxus completes enrollment in MT-102 Phase II trial on cancer cachexia

Lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of premature death or heart attacks

Thyroid hormone may help reduce heart damage in humans with cardiac diseases

Otsuka receives FDA approval for ABILIFY MAINTENA to treat schizophrenia

Telehealth enthusiasm dampened

Survival following heart transplantation associated with several patient characteristics

Long-term treatment with spironolactone improves left ventricular diastolic function in HF patients

CellAegis Devices to use autoRIC Device for Chronic Remote Ischemic Conditioning

HeartWare International fourth quarter revenue increases 42% to $32.7 million

Truven Health Analytics names UCSD Medical Center in 100 Top Hospitals list

Complementary medicine risks: an interview with Dr Andrew Boyden, NPS MedicineWise

Research roundup: Patients hesitant to focus on costs; Increase in primary care demand is uneven

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