Daniel R. Schimmel, MD, explains how balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) uses balloons and specialized catheters to open narrowed vessels in the lungs to improve circulation and reduce symptoms…
Nick Norwitz interviews Aseem Malhotra, MD, a consultant cardiologist, on controversial new findings challenging LDL cholesterol’s role as an independent risk factor for heart disease. They discuss data…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elevated nonfasting levels of triglycerides, a marker for remnant lipoproteins, are associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, according to analysis of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to increase the long-term mortality rate in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), according to a…
Dr. Robin Felder, PhD, Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Virginia Health System, talks about the latest developments in regenerative medicine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who use statins prior to hospitalization for pneumonia are less likely to die after discharge than their peers who were not using…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If aspirin is to be used routinely for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, it should begin at age 48 in men and 57…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia are nearly eight times more likely to experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) within 15 days of admission…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The platelet inhibition caused by clopidogrel is reduced when the drug is coadministered with calcium-channel blockers, Austrian researchers report. Dr. Bernd Jilma and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Beta-blocker-induced heart rate lowering has been shown to have beneficial effects in patients with MI and heart failure, but findings from a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gene expression in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells appears to be useful in determining the presence and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to…
