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• Diabetes Care Will Cost $336B by 2034 (CME/CE, with video)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  More than 44 million Americans will have diabetes within 25 years under current trends, and the annual cost of caring for them will triple to $336 billion in constant 2007 [...]
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• Crestor – Building your life TV commercials

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 150
  Description: A woman talks about how plaque built up in her arteries while building up her life. This is illustrated with live-action footage of that patient at different times of her adult life. The... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
  7 hours ago

• Unstable Structural Elements Of The Heart Muscle Lead To Heart Failure

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million liters of blood through the body. In order to do this, the muscle fibers of the heart have to be extremely durable. The research group headed by Dr. Wolfgang Rottbauer, vice chair of the Department of Medicine III at Heidelberg University Hospital ...
  12 hours ago

• BioAbsorbable Stents – Clinical Trial Results from Abbott on Treating Coronary Artery Disease

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  We all know about biodegradable, well here’s the stent of the future design, it grown on you, literally, or I should be correct here and say it really dissolves, and there might be a bit of truth to both sides here.  Interventional Cardiologists and Radiologists are the ones you really want to know today if you ...
  18 hours ago

• New Device Implanted By Cardiac Surgeons Help Paralyzed Patients Breathe Easier

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently. UT Southwestern University Hospital - St.
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• BME Researcher Builds New Sensor To Distinguish Between Stable Plaque And Heart Attack Plaque

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Viterbi School biomedical engineer and cardiologist Tzung John Hsiai hopes to develop a new tool to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.
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• Rituximab Protects Insulin Producing Cells in Diabetes (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes were modestly better able to retain beta cell function after treatment with the B-cell depleting agent rituximab (Rituxan), researchers said.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• CABG Edges Out PCI in Diabetes (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Stenting may not measure up to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for diabetes patients, researchers reported, a finding consistent with earlier trials.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• New Assay Predicts Cardio Events at Low Troponin T (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Even at levels of the cardiac biomarker too low to be detectable on the standard test, a new assay was able to distinguish risk of cardiovascular events in patients with [...]
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• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation at Jordan Hospital

  
  PlacidWay - Destination For Health & Wellness Tourism — Authority: 124
  by Jordan Hospital A New Hope for Cardiac Patients A team of Jordanian cardiologist and cardiac surgeons lead by Dr. Imad Alhaddad had implanted aortic heart valves using cardiac catheterization technique without traditional open heart surgery at Jordan Hospital as the first of its kind in the region. ...
  2 days ago

• IV Drugs Don’t Improve Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Patients who were given an intravenous drug during advanced cardiac life support did not have increased rates of survival to hospital discharge, researchers say.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Menopause-Cardiology Consensus Statement On Cardiovascular Disease And On HRT

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  A menopause-cardiology consensus statement has called for direct action to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) in menopausal women. The statement also concludes that there is little evidence of increased CVD risk [...]
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• Advances in bioabsorbable stent materials

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 129
  Advances at Tel Aviv University in development of bioabsorbable materials for use in coronary stents are discussed: http://www.lifesciencesworld.com/news/view/125802 The ability to control both drug-elution rate and the time to bioabsorption by the body make these developments noteworthy for their potential to ...
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• Medifacts Inks $1.6 Million Diabetes Study with Top Five Pharmaceutical Company

  
  Your Story — Authority: 570
  ROCKVILLE, Md. & LANGENFELD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiac diagnostic services today announced
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• Medifacts Inks $1.6 Million Diabetes Study with Top Five Pharmaceutical Company

  
  Your Story — Authority: 570
  ROCKVILLE, Md. & LANGENFELD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiac diagnostic services today announced
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• Commercial success in tissue engineering, cell therapy and transplantation

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 129
  Tissue engineering involves taking either autologous, allogeneic or xenogeneic cells and redirecting those cells to carry out fundamental processes. Often the researcher will use a biomaterial matrix and seed the cells into this matrix. The redirection may take the form of stimulating the cells to become stem cells or ...
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• Little evidence linking HRT to heart risk in menopausal women

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Scientists have found little evidence suggesting that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy are at an increased cardiovascular disease risk.Although the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on CVD are favourable, these depend on the woman’s age and medical background. ...
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• Geisinger Medical Center Named Among Nations Top Cardiovascular Hospitals

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) has been named to the 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success list, which annually identifies high-performing cardiovascular hospitals nationally and sets performance targets for managing and improving cardiovascular services.
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• Avoiding Workplace ConflictCould Lead to MI (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Men who habitually walk away from conflict at work could be setting themselves up for a myocardial infarction, researchers said.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Meta-Analysis Finds Early Signs of Rofecoxib CV Risk

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  The rofecoxib (Vioxx) saga continues with the publication today of a meta-analysis suggesting that the drug’s maker, Merck, had evidence of a link to increased risk of heart attack and [...]
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