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Organic milk best: Study

The latest research published by Newcastle University, UK has shown that organic milk contains less unhealthy fat, as well as a range of important healthy nutrients. It contains fewer chemicals and poses less risk for children to develop allergies and eczema. Organic milk is also rich in omega 3 fatty acids that re good for the heart. However it costs more. At least 60 per cent of the diet of organic cows has to be organically grown grass and its traditional derivatives — silage and hay.

18 Jan 2011

Heart failure patients admitted to general wards fare poorly: Study

The latest research shows that patients with heart failure are twice as likely to die if they are admitted to a general hospital ward rather than one specializing in cardiology. Heart failure kills nearly a quarter of a million people in England and Wales every year and about 900,000 people in the UK have the condition that means the heart is weakened and cannot pump blood efficiently. Symptoms include fatigue, breathlessness and swollen ankles, and it can lead to premature death.

18 Jan 2011

Z-Medica develops new version of QuikClot Combat Gauze

Z-Medica Corporation, a medical device company developing innovative hemostatic agents, today announced that it has developed QuikClot Combat Gauze LE, a new version of its QuikClot Combat Gauze dressing specially designed and packaged for use by law enforcement and first responders.

From Medica Corporation 18 Jan 2011

Vasomedical second quarter total revenues increase 353% to $3.801 million

Vasomedical, Inc., a global provider of medical devices, today announced financial results of the three months ended November 30, 2010. Vasomedical is a world leader in the noninvasive treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

18 Jan 2011

Clinipace Worldwide achieves over 800% revenue growth since 2008

Clinipace Worldwide, a global digital clinical research organization (dCRO), announced today that it recently closed its best year to date, achieving over 800% revenue growth since 2008. The company more than doubled its revenues in 2010 over the prior year, attributable to 16 new projects awarded from 12 new clients.

18 Jan 2011

Cardiac surgery market to reach over $4.4 billion by 2017

According to a new report by iData Research, the leading global authority in medical device and pharmaceutical market research, percutaneous aortic valve replacement (PAVR) and percutaneous mitral valve repair (PMVR) devices are expected to enter the U.S. market in 2011 and grow to almost $1.3 billion by 2017.

18 Jan 2011

Positive results from Cook Medical's REFORM stent clinical trial for treatment of renal artery stenosis

Study investigators today reported initial data from Cook Medical's REFORM clinical trial that is aimed at assessing the safety and effectiveness of the company's balloon-expandable renal stent for the treatment of renal artery stenosis. The data, presented by Robert Bersin, M.D., at ISET 2011, reveal a nine-month primary patency rate of 89.5 percent and a 97 percent rate of successful delivery and deployment of the stent.

18 Jan 2011

Heart failure patients admitted to general wards twice as likely to die

Heart failure patients admitted to general wards are twice as likely to die as those admitted to cardiology wards, shows a national audit of the treatment of the condition, published online in the journal Heart.

18 Jan 2011

Critical Diagnostics' Presage ST2 Assay effectively risk-stratifies chronic heart failure patients

Critical Diagnostics, the exclusive developer of the Presage® ST2 Assay, announces the publication of the Penn Heart Failure Study (PHFS) in an advance e-publication of the January 19, 2010 edition of Circulation: Heart Failure. The results of this study demonstrated that ST2 levels not only predict outcomes for ambulatory outpatients with chronic heart failure, they more effectively risk-stratify such patients.

18 Jan 2011

Hamilton Academy of Medicine launches campaign to increase awareness about smoking cessation

In honour of National Non-Smoking Week, The Hamilton Academy of Medicine is proud to introduce, It's Hamilton's Time to Quit, a campaign designed to increase awareness about local quitting resources and tools to help the community understand the support that is available, and encourage people to seek the assistance they need to stop smoking.

18 Jan 2011

American Heart Association honors SBUMC with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award

Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the 2009 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.

18 Jan 2011

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

The ongoing controversy about the appropriate age, frequency, and patient benefit of mammography will be explored at the upcoming 19th Annual Congress on Women's Health, April 1-3, 2011 in Washington DC.

18 Jan 2011

Seordus recieves Japanese patent for SER100

The Norwegian cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company Seordus AS today announced that the Japanese Patent Office has granted a patent for Japan covering Serodus' proprietary product SER100, an ORL-1 receptor agonist, which Serodus intends to develop for patients with isolated systolic hypertension.

18 Jan 2011

Drug-coated stents hold promise for treatment of clogged leg arteries

Drug-coated stents hold promise as a safe and lasting solution for the treatment of clogged leg arteries, suggest two-year results of the Zilver PTX Trial being presented at the 23rd annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET). Blocked leg arteries are a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects 8 to 12 million Americans.

18 Jan 2011

Heart disease patients' skin cells may help test long QT syndrome

Skin cells from a patient with an inherited heart disease were the seeds of a stem cell experiment that could help researchers test specific treatments for the disease, known as long QT syndrome. The research results appear in the January 16 issue of the journal Nature.

18 Jan 2011

Research finds resistance training results in 20% decrease in person's blood pressure

Research conducted in the College of Health Sciences' Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise Science at Appalachian State University has shown that resistance training has some similar effects as aerobic exercise in lowering a person's blood pressure.

18 Jan 2011