May 5, 2017 — Northwell Health recently announced that Cindy Grines, M.D., one of the nation’s pre-eminent cardiologists ...
Point-of-care (POC) coagulation analyzers that measure prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) on ...
A study of how policies restricting pharmaceutical promotion to physicians affect medication prescribing found physicians in academic medical centers (AMCs) prescribed fewer of the promoted drugs, and more non-promoted drugs in the same drug classes, following policy changes to restrict marketing activities at those medical centers. The analysis encompassed 16.1 million prescriptions; while the decline observed was modest in terms of percentage, proportionally small changes can represent thousands of prescriptions.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
May 5, 2017 — DASpecialists LLC, a provider of data abstraction and support services for mandated or voluntary ...
May 5, 2017 — Medtronic Mechanical Circulatory Support is expanding its recall of its HeartWare Ventricular Assist ...
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators have learned how cardiac muscle cells react to a certain type of injury that can be caused by open-heart surgery. The findings point to a new potential way to help these hearts recover more completely.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved the American Health Care Act, the legislation designed by House Republican leadership and backed by President Donald Trump to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.
Spok Inc. recently released the second part of the company's annual mobility in healthcare survey. Spok has been conducting this survey since 2011 to assess mobile workflow enablement trends in hospitals across the country. More than 300 U.S. healthcare professionals responded to this year’s questions about mobile strategy development, bring your own device (BYOD) policies, communications infrastructure and opportunities to improve mobile communications.
American Regent, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, announced that the first patient has been enrolled into the phase 3 clinical trial, HEART-FID. This double-blind, multicenter, prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study will assess the efficacy and safety of iron therapy using intravenous (IV) ferric carboxymaltose (FCM), relative to placebo, in the treatment of patients with heart failure, iron deficiency and a reduced ejection fraction.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Epsilon Imaging Inc. announced a research study using EchoInsight was presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2017 Annual Scientific Session and Expo conference from a team at Northwestern University.
May 3, 2017 — A new study published in The Anatomical Record finds that peripheral arteries, easily accessible by ...
The Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital (BHVH) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) team recently placed the first commercially approved CoreValve Evolut Pro system in Texas. This is also the first Evolut Pro valve placed in a failed bioprosthetic (tissue) aortic valve in the United States.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Kim A. Williams, Sr., M.D., chief of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago and former president of both ...
Tom Kloetzly, sales and marketing VP for Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, explains the evolution of Shimadzu Corporation since its founding 142 years ago.
Acutus Medical recently announced that enrollment has been completed in its pivotal Utilizing Novel Dipole Density Capabilities to Objectively Visualize the Etiology of Rhythms in Atrial Fibrillation (UNCOVER AF) study. The study is evaluating the AcQMap High Resolution Imaging and Mapping System in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) in Europe and Canada.