U of MN study finds children with leukemia are living longer
...AML. Two survivors died from the disease, one from congestive heart failure, and one from a heart attack. The rate of AML recurrence was 1.8 percent at 10 years and 3.7 percent at 20 years. As for their social, education, and employment outcomes, the study found: Marriage rates among AML survivors 25 years o...Nonprofit hospitals, more nurses and greater availability of technology equal better patient care
...-quality care for three common medical conditions: congestive heart failure (CHF); heart attack (acute myocardial infarction, AMI); and pneumonia. Hospitals with higher registered nurse staffing levels, more advanced technology, and federal or military designation all had high performance. "Our study is the fi...Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug
...uesswork out of dosing a lifesaving medication for congestive heart failure. A new formula developed in the UIC College of Pharmacy will help physicians prescribe the proper amount of the powerful heart drug digoxin. The medication helps an injured or weakened heart to work efficiently, strengthening the forc...Depression increases health risks in heart failure patients
...were not depressed. Heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure, is marked by the inability of the heart muscle to pump enough oxygen and nutrients in the blood to the bodys tissues. A variety of factors can cause heart failure, including infections of the heart, coronary artery disease, high blood ...Transcendental meditation reduces congestive heart failure, new study shows
... technique significantly decreases the severity of congestive heart failure, according to a first-of-its-kind ra...ed with New York Heart Association class II or III congestive heart failure. Participants were randomized to either the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique o...Breast cancer survivors experience long-term heart disease risk from radiotherapy
... pain due to an oxygen shortage in the heart), and congestive heart failure, compared with the general female po... had an increased risk of heart attacks as well as congestive heart failure compared with patients who received little or no radiation to the heart. After 1980, p...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
... physicians usually define them, such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, arthritis, or breast cancer. But this definition differs by including all needed specialties and the prevalent co-morbidities, such as diabetes combined with vascular problems or hypertension." "For virtually every condition, the cy...Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth
...isease. Among patients 40 years and older, stroke, congestive heart failure and heart attack were also leading reasons for hospitalization. "Emergency Medicaid essentially functions as catastrophic coverage for a population with very limited access to primary and preventive healthcare," said DuBard, who is al...EVEREST data on use of tolvaptan published in JAMA and featured at ACC
...T investigators randomized patients with worsening congestive heart failure and who had a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 40 percent or less within 48 hours of their hospitalization to receive either 30 milligrams (mg) tolvaptan once-daily or a placebo until the end of the long-term outcome trial. ...Who gets heart failure? Race takes back seat to diabetes and high blood pressure
...ion. So far, 79 study participants have developed congestive heart failure. Other results presented at the meeting showed differences among races in heart strain, or contraction, which may contribute to disparities in heart failure, albeit to a lesser extent. Indeed, African American hearts were found to c...Report reveals estimated high prevalence and heavy cost of type 2 diabetes complications
... followed by chronic kidney disease (3) ($9,002); congestive heart failure ($7,932); stroke ($7,806); coronary heart disease ($6,062); foot problems (4) ($4,687); and eye damage (5) ($1,785).* "As great as these financial burdens are, this is a conservative estimate, as it only includes direct medical costs,...Acute coronary syndrome therapy improvements linked with fewer deaths and improved clinical outcomes
...of PCI increased by 18 percentage points. Rates of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema declined in both populations. In patients with STEMI, hospital deaths decreased by 18 percentage points and cardiogenic shock decreased by 24 percentage points. Risk-adjusted hospital deaths declined in NSTE ACS pati...Heart failure medication does not improve survival, compared to more widely used medication
...both the severity of symptoms and the prognosis in congestive heart failure] for levosimendan. These findings may be related to the short duration of treatment in the trial, a selective effect of levosimendan in specific subgroups, or the lack of a true difference between the 2 drugs. Further studies are needed...New study: Pycnogenol reduces heart failure
...he degenerative process in patients predisposed to congestive heart failure, such as the aged." The study was conducted at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Elderly female mice (18 months old) were randomly divided into four groups: control mice, mice receiving Pycnogenol only, mice receiving L-NAME only (a ...UPMC performs first beating heart transplant procedure in the US
...cessfully transplanted into a 47-year-old man with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension on Sunday, April 8. The surgery was performed at UPMC by Kenneth R. McCurry, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, division of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and dire...UPMC begins study of heart support device as a bridge to transplantation
...third-generation mechanical solution for end-stage congestive heart failure that approaches the goal of minimal interference with a patient's life. In a subsequent study with this pump, we will focus on support for transplant candidates as well as permanent use for those who do not qualify for heart transplanta...Rosiglitazone -- Seeking a balanced approach to avoid panic among patients
...the only significant relevant finding an excess of congestive heart failure episodes for rosiglitazone-treated patients compared with glyburide (22 vs 9 events). When taken together, the Editorial concludes these results could certainly be a matter of concern; but it says that patients, physicians and the US ...Exercise test may help predict mortality risk in heart failure patients
...gues report on a study involving 147 patients with congestive heart failure, which is the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to keep up with the body's demands. Congestive heart failure affects about 4.8 million Americans, with 550,000 new cases diagnosed each year. The primary symptom is shortness of ...Herceptin does not increase heart failure in patients long term
CHICAGO, June 3 Risk of congestive heart failure in women treated with trastuzumab (H...udy is essential to understanding womens risks for congestive heart failure associated with adding Herceptin to combination chemotherapy for breast cancer treatme...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
....5 percent versus 0.2 percent), including cases of congestive heart failure (22 versus 1). But the only cardiac death occurred in the chemotherapy group, she says. We have learned that cardiac toxicity that might result from trastuzumab can be managed in most cases, she says. Dr. Perez says that continuing f...