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Medicaid patients have longer lengths of stay for treatment of heart failure, shows study

Heart failure accounts for 6.5 million hospital days a year, and a new study reported in the Journal for Healthcare Quality showed that Medicaid patients and those with comorbid illnesses have longer lengths of stay for treatment of heart failure.

24 Feb 2014

Prevently.com: New portal aims to help people live healthier lifestyle

Prevently.com is a new health and wellness portal that aims to help people live a healthier lifestyle. The website provides users with health information reviewed by physicians, virtual video coaching with dietitians, a personal health record that integrates with wearable fitness devices such as FitBit, social networking tools, and an ecommerce portal that allows users to purchase health products and food reviewed by physicians.

24 Feb 2014

Researchers discover 11 DNA sequence variants in genes influencing high BP, heart disease

New research from Queen Mary University of London has discovered 11 new DNA sequence variants in genes influencing high blood pressure and heart disease.

24 Feb 2014

Researchers find new drug compound that treats laboratory mice with congenital heart disease

Congenital heart disease is the most common form of birth defect, affecting one out of every 125 babies, according to the National Institutes of Health. Researchers from the University of Missouri recently found success using a drug to treat laboratory mice with one form of congenital heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a weakening of the heart caused by abnormally thick muscle.

23 Feb 2014

Study: Tooth decay may have detrimental effect on child's quality of life and success in life

Dental caries, commonly known as tooth decay, is the single most common chronic childhood disease. In fact, it is an infectious disease. Mothers with cavities can transmit caries-producing oral bacteria to their babies when they clean pacifiers by sticking them in their own mouths or by sharing spoons.

23 Feb 2014

New coating extends lifespan of nanoelectronics, may help develop small implanted medical devices

The debut of cyborgs who are part human and part machine may be a long way off, but researchers say they now may be getting closer.

21 Feb 2014

Chewable drug candidate BTI320 can potentially prevent added sugar intake

It's official: sugar is not so sweet—for our health, that is. The new study "Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults," published in JAMA Internal Medicine, examines the intake of "added sugars," and the results suggest that sugar is now an independent risk factor for heart disease and other chronic diseases.

21 Feb 2014

Genetic study reveals 11 new genetic signals are associated with blood pressure levels

A large international study analyzing genes in tens of thousands of individuals has discovered 11 new genetic signals associated with blood pressure levels. Ten of those signals are in or very near genes encoding proteins that appear to be likely targets for drugs already in existence or in development.

21 Feb 2014

Regional anesthesia may not make patients more prone to falls after knee replacement surgery

Two types of regional anesthesia do not make patients more prone to falls in the first days after having knee replacement surgery as some have previously suggested, according to a study based on nearly 200,000 patient records in the March issue of Anesthesiology.

21 Feb 2014

New 256-slice CT scanner to predict potential heart attack in one second

What can you do in one second? Snap your fingers, blink your eyes, or get a diagnostic scan on a 256-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner? You can do all of those things in one second, but the one that may help save your life is the 256-slice CT scan.

21 Feb 2014

CDC report reveals that younger age group is mostly hit by flu this season

This influenza season was particularly hard on younger- and middle-age adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

21 Feb 2014

Boston Heart receives $1.0M in additional tax incentives through Life Sciences Tax Incentive Program

Boston Heart Diagnostics Corporation, a pioneer in integrating next-generation diagnostics with personal nutrition and lifestyle programs for patients with or at risk for heart disease, has received $1.0 million in additional tax incentives through the Life Sciences Tax Incentive Program.

21 Feb 2014

Viewpoints: Democrats turn tail; amending ACA is tough; Belgium takes hard stance on dying kids

Democrats in competitive races seem to have gotten hall passes to try to dissociate themselves from ObamaCare heading into the midterm elections, but the White House must be ruing some of the liberties their party comrades are taking with this new political independence. Witness the parade of Democrats pleading for more money for that great liberal anathema, Medicare Advantage (2/19).

21 Feb 2014

B3 Fit partners with GolinHarris to promote fitness instructor education programs

B3 Fit, Inc., creator of R.I.P.P.E.D., the hottest new workout system for total body fitness, has partnered with leading PR firm, GolinHarris, to promote its brand, fitness instructor education programs and the debut of its first home DVD.

21 Feb 2014

CSL Behring enrolls first patient in phase III study of C1-INH for prevention of HAE attacks

CSL Behring today announced it has enrolled the first patient in COMPACT, an international phase III study of a volume-reduced, subcutaneous formulation of C1-esterase inhibitor oncentrate in patients with frequent hereditary angioedema attacks (NCT01912456).

20 Feb 2014

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

Medicaid patients have longer lengths of stay for treatment of heart failure, shows study

Prevently.com: New portal aims to help people live healthier lifestyle

Researchers discover 11 DNA sequence variants in genes influencing high BP, heart disease

Researchers find new drug compound that treats laboratory mice with congenital heart disease

Study: Tooth decay may have detrimental effect on child's quality of life and success in life

New coating extends lifespan of nanoelectronics, may help develop small implanted medical devices

Chewable drug candidate BTI320 can potentially prevent added sugar intake

Genetic study reveals 11 new genetic signals are associated with blood pressure levels

Regional anesthesia may not make patients more prone to falls after knee replacement surgery

New 256-slice CT scanner to predict potential heart attack in one second

CDC report reveals that younger age group is mostly hit by flu this season

Boston Heart receives $1.0M in additional tax incentives through Life Sciences Tax Incentive Program

Viewpoints: Democrats turn tail; amending ACA is tough; Belgium takes hard stance on dying kids

B3 Fit partners with GolinHarris to promote fitness instructor education programs

CSL Behring enrolls first patient in phase III study of C1-INH for prevention of HAE attacks

Study finds Cyclin A2 protein induces cardiac regeneration after myocardial infarction

High-potency statins offer improved chance of survival in heart attack patients

Pharmacyclics total revenue for fourth quarter 2013 increases 113% to $123.6 million

Support for progranulin role in bipolar disorder

Implants made of nickel-titanium alloy are not dangerous to health, shows study

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