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Sutter Davis Hospital receives Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for excellent performance

Sutter Davis Hospital (SDH) has become the first organization in the greater Sacramento area and the smallest hospital ever to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's only Presidential honor that recognizes performance excellence in education, healthcare and business organizations.

10 Jan 2014

NBTY named silver winner in Most Socially Responsible Company of the Year category

NBTY, Inc., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of high-quality vitamins and nutritional supplements, has been named a silver winner in the category "Most Socially Responsible Company of the Year" by the Best in Biz Awards.

10 Jan 2014

CalNaturale Svelte helps individuals looking to achieve new health goals in 2014

To ring in the New Year and help make health and fitness resolutions stick through the winter and beyond, CalNaturale Svelte®, the premium line of USDA Certified organic protein shakes that provides great taste, sustained nutrition and energy through pure and simple ingredients, is offering simple ways for people to stay "Svelte" this season.

10 Jan 2014

Men who are fit and obese run higher risk of having heart attack than unfit, lean men

In a study published in the European Heart Journal, a research team at Ume- University, Sweden, has shown that physical fitness in your teens can reduce the risk of heart attack later in life, while men who are fit and obese in their teens run a higher risk of having a heart attack than unfit, lean men.

10 Jan 2014

Radius Medical launches new PRODIGY Support Catheter in the U.S.

Radius Medical, LLC. today announced the FDA clearance and product launch of its new PRODIGY™ Support Catheter. Engineered to provide back up support to the guidewire when encountering difficult to cross lesions, the PRODIGY Support catheter will be a critical component in the revolutionary techniques now being developed in treating chronic total occlusions.

10 Jan 2014

Researchers reveal newest weapon to visualize shape and motion of RNA

Qi Zhang sees himself as a warrior. In his lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he wages war on genetic diseases such as cancer and heart disease on a battlefield measured with single atoms.

10 Jan 2014

Researchers discover key step to stem bleeding, reduce obstruction in blood flow during clot formation

Red blood cells are the body's true shape shifters, perhaps the most malleable of all cell types, transforming - among many other forms -- into compressed discs capable of going through capillaries with diameters smaller than the blood cell itself.

10 Jan 2014

T2HemoStat detection of novel clot behavior could direct therapeutic choices for stroke, heart attack victims

T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, announced that scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and T2 Biosystems have published a paper in Blood describing novel clot structure biology detected while testing T2 Bio's T2HemoStat-.

10 Jan 2014

Longer reads: Hospice drains Medicare; false Obamacare 'horror stories;' growing up without vaccines

Hospice patients are expected to die: The treatment focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill, not finding a cure. To enroll a patient, two doctors certify a life expectancy of six months or less. But over the past decade, the number of "hospice survivors" in the United States has risen dramatically, in part because hospice companies earn more by recruiting patients who aren't actually dying, a Washington Post investigation has found. Healthier patients are more profitable because they require fewer visits and stay enrolled longer (Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating, 12/26).

9 Jan 2014

TSRI researchers develop new fluid biopsy technique to identify patients at high risk of heart attack

A new "fluid biopsy" technique that could identify patients at high risk of a heart attack by identifying specific cells as markers in the bloodstream has been developed by a group of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute.

9 Jan 2014

Bipolar screening tools not tailored to young people

Current screening tools for bipolar disorder are poorly validated in the age group most at risk for developing the condition, say researchers.

9 Jan 2014

Gastric bypass and cardiovascular disease risk: an interview with Dr. Brethauer, Cleveland Clinic

Gastric bypass surgery is a type of bariatric operation that results in weight loss and stimulates metabolic effects that treat diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension.

9 Jan 2014

Trevena doses first patient in TRV027 Phase 2b trial for acute heart failure

Trevena, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company involved in the discovery and development of G-protein coupled receptor biased ligands, announced today initiation of dosing in BLAST-AHF, the Company's randomized, multi-center Phase 2b trial of TRV027 in patients with acute heart failure.

9 Jan 2014

High aerobic fitness in late adolescence may reduce heart attack risk later in life

Researchers in Sweden have found an association between a person’s fitness as a teenager and their risk of heart attack in later life. In a study of nearly 750,000 men, they found that the more aerobically fit men were in late adolescence, the less likely they were to have a heart attack 30 or 40 years later.

9 Jan 2014

Bio-inspired biodegradable surgical glue repairs defects of heart and blood vessels

Gecko Biomedical, a French medical device company developing 'bio-inspired' biodegradable surgical glues and patches for wound closure, announces that the Company's co-founders have published data demonstrating the potential of its paradigm-shifting technologies for minimally invasive reconstructive heart surgery.

9 Jan 2014

GSK receives FDA approval for combination of Mekinist with Tafinlar for treatment of melanoma

GlaxoSmithKline plc announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mekinist® (trametinib) for use in combination with Tafinlar® (dabrafenib) for the treatment of patients with unresectable melanoma (melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery) or metastatic melanoma (melanoma which has spread to other parts of the body) with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations.

9 Jan 2014

Study links dietary fat content with excess of abdominal fat in adolescents, irrespective of physical exercise

The prevalence of excess weight and obesity among adolescents and, as a result, the concomitant problems, has increased considerably in recent years. A study by the UPV/EHU has confirmed that, irrespective of the total calories consumed and the physical activity done, an excessive proportion of fat in the diet leads to a greater accumulation of fat in the abdomen.

9 Jan 2014

Cardiology News and Research

Latest Cardiology News and Research

Sutter Davis Hospital receives Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for excellent performance

NBTY named silver winner in Most Socially Responsible Company of the Year category

CalNaturale Svelte helps individuals looking to achieve new health goals in 2014

Men who are fit and obese run higher risk of having heart attack than unfit, lean men

Radius Medical launches new PRODIGY Support Catheter in the U.S.

Researchers reveal newest weapon to visualize shape and motion of RNA

Researchers discover key step to stem bleeding, reduce obstruction in blood flow during clot formation

T2HemoStat detection of novel clot behavior could direct therapeutic choices for stroke, heart attack victims

Longer reads: Hospice drains Medicare; false Obamacare 'horror stories;' growing up without vaccines

TSRI researchers develop new fluid biopsy technique to identify patients at high risk of heart attack

Bipolar screening tools not tailored to young people

Gastric bypass and cardiovascular disease risk: an interview with Dr. Brethauer, Cleveland Clinic

Trevena doses first patient in TRV027 Phase 2b trial for acute heart failure

High aerobic fitness in late adolescence may reduce heart attack risk later in life

Bio-inspired biodegradable surgical glue repairs defects of heart and blood vessels

GSK receives FDA approval for combination of Mekinist with Tafinlar for treatment of melanoma

Study links dietary fat content with excess of abdominal fat in adolescents, irrespective of physical exercise

Mild electronic stimulation therapy to upper airway during sleep effective in reducing OSA

Bio-inspired adhesive may help surgeons treat congenital heart defects, other heart problems

Implantation of sleep apnea device can lead to improvements for patients with OSA

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