Feature | Kim Phelan

I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.

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Feature | Mark Paquin

Are drug-eluting stents destined to fail? In Part 1 of this investigation, the connection of DES and thrombogenicity was ...

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Feature | Jeffrey J. Fine, Ph.D., M.S., and Michael C. Foster, M.D., FACC, South Carolina Heart Center, Columb

An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass ...

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Heart Disease is Equal Opportunity Killer of Women, it is the #1 killer of women and men.
Feature | Womens Cardiovascular Health | Jody Paige

Women's heart health continues to grow as an awareness topic among the general public, and behind the scenes physicians ...

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Feature | Kim Phelan

Ah, money, money, money — the Frankenstein monster that destroys souls.” It’s one of many oddball lines from the zany 1930s Carole Lombard and William Powell comedy, “My Man Godfrey,” but it rings true for physicians and other clinicians who know all too well how money has often got healthcare by the throat.

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Beginning April 1, Terumo officially launches its own, full-scale marketing and sales program for all its products in ...

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Feature | Namrata Sundaresan

Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...

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Feature | Ellen Hansen, director of Clinical Informatics Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Electronic medical information improves patient safety by providing immediate and complete access to complex patient ...

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

It’s like a never-ending battle — that’s how Lena Napolitano, M.D., describes the recent and sharp rise in nosocomial ...

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Feature | J. Steven Hata, MD, director, Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia and Kristy Walker

Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare providers. In the delivery of healthcare in 2006 there exists a strong rationale for a tight relationship between critical care and information technology (Celi, Hassan, Marquardt, Breslow, & Rosenfeld, 2001).

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and ...

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DAIC: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...

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A new spot blood pressure monitoring product from Medwave can now be sold and marketed in the U.S. Primo is a handheld ...

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