ACP hosts 'Internal Medicine 2007' in San Diego
...f internal medicine and its subspecialties such as cardiology and gastroenterology. With more than 6,000 internists, medical students, and other health care professionals expected to attend, Internal Medicine 2007 is the largest continuing education meeting for internists (doctors of internal medicine), who s...Erectile dysfunction drugs may trump nitroglycerin for heart protection
...outcomes," said George W. Vetrovec, M.D., chair of cardiology at the VCU Pauley Heart Center. "These agents have significant potential to enhance patient outcomes, particularly in high risk circumstances, such as acute heart attacks." For several years, Kukreja and his colleagues have studied a class of erect...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...id Lori Mosca, M.D., Ph.D., director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and chair of the American Heart Association expert panel that wrote the guidelines. "We took a long-term view of heart disease prevention because the lifetime risk of dying of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is nearly ...Researchers: Few heart disease trials reporting sex-specific results
...ar trials published in leading general medical and cardiology journals during the last six months of 2004 did not provide sex-based analysis. In a review of 645 cardiovascular clinical trials published from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2004, only 153 provided sex-specific reporting -- defined as reporting results ...Medicaid patients less likely than those with private insurance to receive recommended cardiac care
...r. James Calvin, lead study author and director of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, found Medicaid patients were less likely to receive short term medications and to undergo invasive cardiac procedures. They also had higher in-hospital mortality rates and were less likely to receive recommended dis...Study explores cause of exercise intolerance in heart failure patients
... of life," said Dalane Kitzman, M.D., professor of cardiology and senior researcher on the study. "This condition will increase as our population ages, so it's important to pinpoint the reasons for their symptoms and to develop effective treatments." The study results are reported on-line in American Journ...Duke researchers highlight gender differences in heart failure
...lure and how patients fare with the disease," said cardiology fellow Camille Frazier, M.D., who presented the results of the study on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association, in Chicago. "As we uncovered in our analysis, there are important differences between men...Wide racial disparities found in coronary artery disease deaths
...to identify risk factors and to act on them," said cardiology fellow Kevin Thomas, M.D., who reported the results of the analysis on Sunday, Nov. 12, at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association, in Chicago. The study was supported by a young investigator award from the Association of B...Fast test for low blood flow in dogs detects early heart trouble
...d George, M.D., a Reynolds Foundation postdoctoral cardiology research fellow at Hopkins, says it takes on average between 45 minutes to one hour to perform another common diagnostic procedure, a cardiac stress test with exercise and ultrasound, to assess pumping function and blood flow. "Even when patients ...Analysis: Condition could predict life or death in heart patients
...tudy was authored by 13 internationally recognized cardiology researchers, including Dr. David J. Moliterno, Gill Heart Institute medical director and professor and chief of cardiovascular medicine in the UK College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Steven R. Steinhubl, associate professor an...Physicians slow to integrate information technology into patient practice
...e, pediatrics, anesthesiology, general surgery and cardiology randomly selected from the membership in the American Medical Association. Along with questions about many aspects of medical professionalism, respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they used five information technologies: e-mail commun...Gene transfer using mutant form of good cholesterol cuts vascular plaque and inflammation
... HDL gene, according to a mouse study conducted by cardiology researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and reported in the Oct. 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Apolipoprotein A-I is a naturally occurring component of normal HDL (high-density lipoprotein), the "good" cholesterol...Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use associated with higher gastrointestinal complications
...d of physicians in gastroenterology, rheumatology, cardiology and internal medicine who developed the statement based on presentations of current scientific knowledge followed by group discussion. The AGA Institute "Consensus Development Conference on the Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents" was sup...Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring
...perts in the fields of molecular biology, clinical cardiology and electrical engineering, and brings together scientists, engineers, physicians and a host of local business leaders from academia and upstate New York industry. The concept has seen strong support from individuals such as Terry Gronwall, an entrep...Factors linked with increased risk of cardiac arrest for adolescents with certain heart condition
.... 2005. The registry enrollment began in 1979 at 5 cardiology centers in the United States and Europe. There were 81 patients who experienced aborted cardiac arrest, 45 who had sudden cardiac death; 9 of the 81 patients who had an aborted cardiac arrest event experienced subsequent sudden cardiac death. Sign...Jefferson researchers find potential biomarket for heart failure
(PHILADELPHIA) A team of cardiology researchers at Thomas Jefferson University has determined that GRK2, a protein that plays an important regulatory role in heart failure, is elevated in patients with failing hearts when compared to patients with normal heart function. "These finding...Drazner to lead UT Southwestern heart failure and transplant program
...t. From 1993 to 1996, he completed a fellowship in cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He then completed a 15-month fellowship dedicated to the management of patients with congestive heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He subsequently received a Mas...Consensus reached on new guidelines for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
...ommendations into one source approved by the major cardiology organizations in the United States and Europe. This document completes the triad of arrhythmia-based guideline topics cosponsored by the ACC, AHA and ESC. In addition to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, management of patients with su...The Lancet calls on research community to address neglected disease that causes heart failure
...a year, states an Editorial in this week's special cardiology issue of The Lancet. Chagas' disease, prevalent in Latin America, is caused by infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. An estimated 18 million people are chronically infected with the parasite and about 100 million are at risk of infection ...Grueling four-day race becomes Stanford lab for cardiac experiments
... Scotland, Ashley, MD, PhD, assistant professor of cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and his colleagues found that contrary to generally held beliefs, the heart does, in fact, tire with exercise - at least it can under extreme conditions. "I think it's amazing," said Ashley. "Your hear...