Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Atherosclerosis, Carotid Artery Disease, Cerebral Artery Disease/Stroke, Coronary Artery Disease, Peripheral Artery Disease and Hypertension
HEALTH IS REAL WEALTH (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Experts weigh in on the pros and cons of each plan. The key to losing weight—and keeping it off—is to find the eating plan that fits your personality and lifestyle. To help, we've rounded up expert opinions on the pros and cons of the 10 most popular diets in America. "All the popular diets can help you lose weight because they provide almost identical calorie intakes," says...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights The debate over health care in this country is all wrong. The question being debated should be how are we going to provide coverage for millions of uninsured Americans, not if we should do so. It's ironic that the richest country in the history of mankind lets millions of people walk around without decent health coverage and allows...
Motor City Liberal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Think Progress The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the overwhelming majority of Americans would remain uninsured and continue paying higher premiums under the Republicans’ health care alternative. In fact, it’s unlikely that any of the members of the Republican House Leadership would be able to find affordable insurance under their own proposal, should they chose to give...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new study finds a link between cardiovascular disease and hip fractures.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new study indicates dentists can play a potentially life-saving role in health care by identifying patients at risk of fatal heart attacks and referring them to physicians for further evaluation.Published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, the study followed 200 patients (101 women and 99 men) in private dental practices in Sweden whose dentists used a computerized...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Merck CEO Richard Clark ( photo ) went to some pains yesterday to make it clear that the merger with Schering-Plough in no way diminishes the pharma giant's appetite for biotech deals. If anything, he says, the bigger company has only grown more hungry. Over the past six years Merck has averaged 50 deals a year, Clark tells the AP . And it has $8 billion in the bank for the planned deal-making spree....
shaunwatsonhrv | 11/05/2009
It is believed that Heart Rate Variability will become as common as pulse, blood pressure or temperature in patient charts in the near future. In the last ten years have been written about Heart Rate Variability . Heart Rate Variability has been used as a screening tool in many disease processes. Heart Rate Variability various medical disciplines are looking at Heart Rate Variability . In diabetes
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
GENEVA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's leading semiconductor companies, and Mayo Clinic, a premier health-care organization, are collaborating on a novel platform for remotely monitoring patients with chronic cardiovascular disease. The platform will provide a comprehensive and unobtrusive solution that monitors person-specific data and physiological...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
New research shows that patients with atherosclerosis receiving statin therapy had a significantly reduced risk of developing venous thromboembolism -- a collective term for DVT (blood clot) and pulmonary embolism -- than patients not on statin therapy.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it's worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person prone to a heart attack. Researchers have taken the first steps toward standardizing the measurement of a blood protein whose presence in higher-than-normal levels may predict an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease.
Diabetes Update (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A study just published in Diabetes takes a closer look at the notorious Veterans Study. I have blogged before about that study here: Why Doctors Are Telling Type 2s Not to Lower Blood Sugar And Why They Are Wrong. The veterans study is one of two studies that found that aggressive blood sugar control did not appear to make any difference in the likelihood of having a heart attack. But this new analysis...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Carotenoids -fat-soluble plant compounds found in some vegetables -are essential to the human diet and reportedly offer important health benefits to consumers. Plant carotenoids are the most important source of vitamin A in the human diet; the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, found in corn and leafy greens vegetable such as kale, broccoli, and spinach, are widely considered to be valuable antioxidants...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
IRVINE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), a world leader in products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, is scheduled to present at the Credit Suisse Annual Healthcare Conference at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
New study shows that a long period of estrogen deprivation can lead to loss of sensitivity and protective effects in the brain and weaken areas normally resistant to stroke damageEighteen years ago this month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would sponsor a landmark study to examine women and cardiovascular disease. Known as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the study enrolled...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Penn Medicine will lead a new national $45 million clinical trial to test whether testosterone therapy can favorably affect certain conditions affecting older men. Low serum testosterone may contribute to a number of problems affecting older men, including decreased ability to walk, loss of muscle mass and strength, decreased vitality, decreased sexual function, impaired cognition, cardiovascular disease...
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shaunwatsonhrv | 11/05/2009
It is believed that Heart Rate Variability will become as common as pulse, blood pressure or temperature in patient charts in the near future. In the last ten years have been written about Heart Rate Variability . Heart Rate Variability has been used as a screening tool in many disease processes. Heart Rate Variability various medical disciplines are looking at Heart Rate Variability . In diabetes...
biocomtechhrv | 10/14/2009
Biocom Technologies is the global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of Heart Rate Variability products. The company was founded in 1996 as a Research and Development Company. Specifically, Biocom develops biomedical software and hardware products designed to monitor physiology for research and educational purposes. Currently our focus is on developing state of the art Heart Rate...
jwilliam.j123 | 10/01/2009
Have you ever heard or seen the case where a person in an edition of one thing, but rather than get rid of it, he uses? The most likely answer to this question would be "no." Why is this "no" are there? It is against human behavior to go with things problematic. In particular, when something that causes health effects are not using. However, reverse this process occurs in obesity. Obesity is the result
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