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• Cardiology Pioneer William Ganz Dead at 90

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  Co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz catheter for measuring blood flow, William Ganz, MD, died of natural causes at age 90 in Los Angeles.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Doctor forced to deliver wife’s baby in rush-hour traffic

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  A doctor was forced to deliver the baby after she started going into labor during heavy traffic. Wissam Alfahli, cardiology specialist registrar at St Vincent’s Hospital in south Dublin, was driving from Clonsilla on the N3 with his wife, Razan, when she suddenly went into labor. Stuck in near standstill ...
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• Merck Strengthens Its Commitment to Advancing Cardiovascular Health Care

  
  Your Story — Authority: 457
  WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Following the completion of its merger with Schering-Plough, Merck today confirms and underscores its commitment to marketing and develo
  13 hours ago

• Zargis To Release Trial Version Of Cardioscan While Exhibiting With 3M(TM) Littmann(R) At American Heart Association Conference

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 733
  Speedus Corp. (Nasdaq: SPDE) announced that it will be releasing a free trial version of its Zargis Cardioscan software during the American Heart Associations 2009 Scientific Sessions conference, taking place this November 15-17 in Orlando.
  15 hours ago

• Kids with CKD Often Have Masked Hypertension (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  Many children with chronic kidney disease may have undetected hypertension, placing them at risk for enlarged hearts and future cardiovascular disease, a cross-sectional study showed.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Crestor web banner

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 146
  Click here to see it on AdPharm AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
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• Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and NABT to Launch Stem Cell Educational Summit in Denver

  
  Your Story — Authority: 457
  DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) will launch the first Stem Cell Education Summit on Saturday, Nove
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• Gluing The Breastbone Together After Open-Heart Surgery

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 733
  An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly bonds to bone and accelerates the recovery process. "We can now heal the breastbone in hours instead of ...
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• Sir Thomas Lewis

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 422
  The catalogue of the papers of Sir Thomas Lewis held by the Wellcome Library is now available to view online. The collection includes much on his wartime work at military heart hospitals in Colchester and Hampstead, and with the Ministry of Pensions, where he worked on a condition he termed “effort syndrome”. This ...
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• Open Heart Surgery Pilot Program – Surgeon Glues the Breastbone Back Together

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  Open heart surgery is major recuperation when you stop and think of how the breastbone has to grow back together, and in Calgary this surgeon has a process that he has used with a few patients and it seems to be working well, no more wires. For the patient, these is less pain, a need for less pain medication and ...
  2 days ago

• Patient Walks Again: Jordan Hospital & Medical Center Continues History of Excellence

  
  PlacidWay - Destination For Health & Wellness Tourism — Authority: 125
  by PlacidWay | Denise Wang Adijat suffered from years of low back pain, limiting movement, mobility, and her quality of life. Experiencing left thigh numbness, she also experienced incontinence and digestive issues.  Getting around proved increasingly difficult and pain was a constant reminder of her ...
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• First Pediatric Patient With Implanted Mechanical Heart Device Discharged From Texas Childrens

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 733
  Texas Childrens Hospital is the nations first pediatric hospital to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished only at adult institutions. The patient, 16-year-old Francisco "Frank" De Santiago, who was implanted with a mechanical heart pump called the ...
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• Telehealth Watches from a Distance

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 147
  “Increasingly, doctors and patients do not need to be in the same room for treatment and diagnosis to occur. The field of telehealth and remote patient monitoring is making distance less of an issue, and allowing for patient observation around the clock.”ArticleM2M, 11 November 2009
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• Cardiologists and Other Barbarians

  
  The Covert Rationing Blog — Authority: 480
  Here’s a Podcast of this post:____________Beginning in about 300 A.D., at the height of the Roman Empire, great masses of barbarian peoples - Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals and others - were displaced by the invading Huns from their ancestral homes in northern and eastern Europe, and began  moving south. It was the ...
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• FDA Grants Vascular Solutions Clearance for The GuideLine Catheter

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 672
  US FDA has given 510(k) regulatory clearance to Vascular Solutions Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota firm, to market the GuideLiner™ catheter. The device, designed to provide a coaxial guide extension and rapid exchange for coronary or peripheral interventions, comes in 6F, 7F, 8F (Freedom Fries) sizes and is ...
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• Hemoglobin Levels Predict Diabetic Retinopathy (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  An already routine blood test may identify juvenile-onset diabetic patients at heightened risk for proliferative retinopathy, researchers said.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Renal Artery Revascularization Fails to Beat Medical Therapy Alone (CME/CE, with audio)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  In patients with asymptomatic renal artery stenosis, percutaneous revascularization does not improve clinical outcomes, the multicenter, randomized ASTRAL trial showed.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Weve replaced your heart doctor with a fast food chain: Lets see if people notice the difference

  
  The Bayou — Authority: 138
  From the BAYOU "urban renewal" department:Southeast Texas Cardiology Associates is moving. Their former digs, on 11th and North Street in Beaumont, are being vacated. Who will replace these dogged heart docs? In an irony too rich for our blood, fast food chain -- Jack-in-the-Box -- has proposed a restaurant in that ...
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• IntriCon To Unveil New Cardiac Diagnostic Monitoring Device At 2009 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 733
  IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN), a designer, developer, manufacturer and distributor of body-worn medical and electronics devices, announced today that it will unveil a prototype of its new Cardiac Diagnostic Monitoring (CDM) device, called the Mobile Patient ECG Telemetry System, or MPETS, at the 2009 American ...
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• Five Opportunities for Our Health System to Improve

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following guest post on the subject of drug adherence is written by Janet Wright , Senior Vice President, Science & Quality, at American College of Cardiology. If the Disruptive Women series on medication adherence has shown anything, it’s that there is a nearly endless number of potential solutions ...
  3 days ago

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