Study establishes link between air pollution, ischemic strokes
...r Gregory Wellenius, Sc.D., postdoctoral fellow in cardiology at BIDMC. "Although these effects sound relatively small, given the large number of people exposed to air pollution and the large number of people at risk for stroke, from a public-health perspective the actual number of strokes [we're talking abou...Yale researcher leads successful effort to access HMO fees for Medicaid patients
...or specialty services in gastroenterology (GI) and cardiology since Connecticut state budget cuts in 2002. Data ...ases, examining payer mix and percentage change in cardiology and GI visits from 2000 to 2005. Hartwig and the team said state policymakers should consider a vari...ECG transmission by cell phone speeds heart attack treatment
... will be damaged," said Dr. Shukri David, chief of cardiology at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich. "We're mobilizing the cath lab team while the patient is still at home." Traditionally, paramedics perform an ECG in the field if they suspect a patient is having a heart attack but do not transmit the trac...Study questions widespread use of C-reactive protein test to assess cardiovascular risk
...gator Michael Miller, M.D., director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "The CRP test gained popularity in the late 1990's when it was believed that only 50 percent of heart attacks could be ...International study finds one in five heart patients continue to smoke
...published (Thursday 6 October) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, European Heart Journal[1], reveals that fewer than half of the heart patients in the study who smoked quit after suffering their first coronary event, with one out of five continuing to smoke despite advice to stop. Epidemiologist and lead a...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...Eduardo Marbn, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chief of cardiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...e. According to Richard Lange, chief of clinical cardiology at Hopkins, who leads research efforts into ischemic heart disease and adult congenital heart diseas...SCAI, NCQA partner to hold landmark conference on introducing complex medical therapies
..., secretary of SCAI and director of interventional cardiology research at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass. "It will help identify programs with good outcomes and the factors involved in those outcomes, and it will assist new programs in achieving equally good outcomes." The conference will explore how ...Groundbreaking consensus: pediatric cardiology training recommendations
...g in pediatric cardiology. Directors of pediatric cardiology fellowship training will now have the ACCF/AHA/ACP...e care for children with heart disease. "Pediatric cardiology is complex and multifaceted, composed of different clinical and academic subspecialties that are gro......nd exciting developments in the field of pediatric cardiology and surgery. The program also includes 20 topics m...n in-depth discussion of most aspects of pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiovascular surgery. For a hospital where heart defects are repaired in children on...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
...of this revolutionary and promising interventional cardiology procedure....New, simpler treatment guidelines could save heart attack patients
.... Gibler and other national emergency medicine and cardiology experts provide a distilled review of the ACC/AHA guidelines. "It's critical that physicians know how to determine whether an emergency patient with chest pain is at high or low risk of a heart attack," Dr. Gibler said. "If used, the review will hel...Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...d on line (Tuesday, 2 August) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] . Women are under represented in most clinical studies, so the data and the results are less well documented for them, according to Dr Verena Stangl, senior author of the paper, who is from the Charit Hospit...Statin therapy may lower mortality in heart failure patients
...ent per year. William C. Little, M.D., head of the cardiology section at Wake Forest Baptist, and his research team found a dramatic difference in the longevity of 137 diastolic heart failure patients followed over a three-year period. The patients were being treated with ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium ...SCAI news: Drug-eluting stents prove mettle in heart attack patients
...fe," said Ron Waksman, M.D., associate director of cardiology at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. Drug-eluting stents are expandable metal tubes that prop open an artery supplying blood to the heart while slowly releasing a drug that over time prevents renarrowing, or restenosis. Drug-eluting sten...Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
...Eduardo Marbn, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chief of cardiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "It was very discouraging to know that these patients developed arrhythmias, yet not know if it was the muscle stem cells at fault or simply a progression of the patients' h...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...ch published (Thursday 9 June) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal[1]. The recommendation is the result of findings from one of the world's largest population-based studies on psychological distress in heart disease patients. It has established that men and women with heart diseas...Doctor 'report cards' may keep some heart patients from getting angioplasties
...o Moscucci, M.D., FACC, who directs interventional cardiology at U-M and for nearly a decade has led an angioplasty quality-improvement project funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The grant and data from that project, called the BCBSM Cardiovascular Consortium, made it possible for Moscucci and his c...ESC releases new chronic heart failure guidelines
..., official journal of the ESC and Europe's leading cardiology journal. The Guidelines offer up to date practical recommendations on the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of Chronic Heart Failure and have been specifically formulated for use in clinical practice, as well as in epidemiological surveys and cli...Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
... returning to complete his fellowship in pediatric cardiology in 1972, following which he was appointed to the faculty. Remaining active at Children's Hospital, Dr. Meyer continues to serve as attending pediatrician and as attending cardiologist. He founded and directed the echocardiography laboratory in 1969 ...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
... "Many of these patients are having their scans at cardiology centers that may or may not employ a physician who specializes in radiology and has been trained to spot problems of any kind on medical images," says lead author Smita Patel, M.B.B.S., an assistant professor of radiology at the U-M Medical School an...