Study: Heart Attacks Deadlier for Women

New research in the latest edition of Circulation: The Journal of the American Heart Association...

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December 10th, 2008 - 13:41

Take Your Statins To Prevent Heart Attack!

Half of heart attacks and strokes happen among apparently healthy men and women with normal or low...

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November 17th, 2008 - 14:10

Crestor Can Detect Risks Of Heart Attack

A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...

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November 11th, 2008 - 23:53

Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well

Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to reduce heart risk in people with...

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November 10th, 2008 - 14:30

Angioplasty Overused in Heart Patients

Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI is the clinical name for angioplasty and cardiac...

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October 16th, 2008 - 14:42

AHA Recommends Screening For Depression In All Heart Patients

People suffering from some form of heart disease appear to be at a higher risk of depression as...

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September 30th, 2008 - 14:13

Bypass Surgery Still the Best Treatment for Heart Patients

Bypass surgery is still the most effective treatment for most problems involving heart artery...

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September 02nd, 2008 - 22:18

The Medicines Company To Buy Targanta Therapeutics

Medicines Co. on Monday announced its intention to buy biotechnology company Targanta...

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January 14th, 2009 - 08:59

California Hospital Death Rates For 2006/2007 Released

In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...

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January 23rd, 2009 - 19:52

Statins Good for People with Normal Cholesterol Levels Too

Statins have long been prescribed for people diagnosed with high levels of bad cholesterol in...

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November 17th, 2008 - 16:00

Heart Problems And Depression

The American Heart Association reports that people who’ve experienced a heart attack are more...

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September 30th, 2008 - 17:33

Cholesterol Drug Crestor Reduces Risk of Vein Clots As Well

Besides reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug...

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March 30th, 2009 - 14:10

Hurricane Katrina Tied to Dramatic Increase in Heart Attacks

Tulane University research has shown that Hurricane Katrina has contributed to a dramatic rise in...

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March 28th, 2009 - 22:24

Panel Unanimously Votes For Lilly, Daiichi Blood Thinner Prasugrel

An advisory panel of the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday voted unanimously to...

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February 04th, 2009 - 14:59

FDA Approves of Lilly, Daiichi Anti-Clot Drug

  Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to Eli Lilly and Company’s...

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January 30th, 2009 - 20:27

HealthGrades: Top-Rated Hospitals Have 27 Percent Lower Death Rate

Another report, this time coming from HealthGrades, comes to the rescue of people looking for the...

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January 28th, 2009 - 14:00

California Hospital Death Rates for 2006/2007 Released

In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...

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January 23rd, 2009 - 15:20

California Hospitals’ Death Rates Vary Widely

According to a recent study that looked at mortality rates for California hospitals between 2006...

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January 22nd, 2009 - 16:53

New Device May Help Doctors Use Fewer Stents, Save Money

New research suggests that using a medical device from Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical could...

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January 15th, 2009 - 14:14

The Medicines Company to Buy Targanta Therapeutics

Medicines Co. on Monday announced its intention to buy biotechnology company Targanta...

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January 13th, 2009 - 13:20

Women, Less Likely To Survive Severe Heart Attacks

Although equal, there are some anatomical and biological differences between men and women. These...

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December 09th, 2008 - 19:20

Women More Likely Than Men To Die From Severe Heart Attack

A new study suggests that women are less likely than men to get proper care after being...

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December 09th, 2008 - 14:00

Crestor and Its Effects

The drug Crestor, e new comer designed to lower cholesterol, has also been proven to lower the risk...

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November 12th, 2008 - 18:20

A Study Finds New Ways of Detecting Heart Disease

A regular medical exam could soon contain a simple, low-cost blood test, which could help assess...

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November 11th, 2008 - 14:42

Statins Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes, May Benefit Healthy People Too

Heart attacks and strokes may be cut by roughly 50 percent among patients who receive preventive...

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November 10th, 2008 - 11:00

Study: Statin Drug Cuts Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke, Death

A cholesterol-lowering statin drug given to people with normal cholesterol can reduce their risk of...

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November 09th, 2008 - 18:16

HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality Study Released

Analyzing 17 procedures undergone at 5,000 US hospitals from 2005 to 2007, HealthGrades, a leader...

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October 16th, 2008 - 14:54

Heart Patients Don’t Get the Recommended Tests before Angioplasty

Less than half of all Americans who undergo non-emergency artery-opening procedures for heart...

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October 15th, 2008 - 14:11

Bypass Surgery Better Than Stents, Study Concludes

Although bypass surgery and angioplasty have similar effects for heart patients with clogged...

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September 02nd, 2008 - 11:01

Study Says Bypass Is Better Than Stents

European doctors compared the effectiveness of open-heart surgery versus angioplasty (tiny mesh...

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September 02nd, 2008 - 00:14

Stent Surgery Showed Similar Results Compared With Drugs

Angioplasty or stent surgery may provide more short-term relief for some patients that suffer from...

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August 14th, 2008 - 14:01

Nearly Half of Heart Patients Missing Heart Attack Signs

Heart disease patients are not aware of heart attack symptoms, which might affect the treatment’s...

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May 28th, 2008 - 15:46

Sen. Vincent Fumo Leaves Hospital 1 Week after Heart Attack

A week after suffering a heart attack, State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Phila, was released from a...

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March 10th, 2008 - 15:35