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 | Mark Paquin

What do you think of when you hear the word simulation? Probably the first thing that comes to mind is flight simulation ...

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Feature | Kim Phelan

Novelists and playwrights might call it a cruel irony — heroes who succumb to the powers of evil, true love tragically ...

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

As a professor of surgery and the director of a mitral valve clinic that performs 300 to 400 valve repairs each year ...

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Feature | Judith Cassidy

As costs continue to soar for the medical community, health professionals are looking for ways to save money while not ...

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

Give a highly ranked research and teaching facility access to cutting-edge technology, and the results could be death ...

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Feature | Sunny Sanyal

What factors are driving increased adoption of healthcare information technology, otherwise known as HIT? Clinical IT and technology in general are getting a lot of focus from the government, from the industry, from clinicians — and the drive to make healthcare safer is what's driving overall growth of clinical IT and technology adoption.

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One of the highest priorities for physicians who diagnose and treat heart failure conditions is to keep their patients ...

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Feature | Kim Phelan

It struck me the other day that while thousands of healthcare information technology (HIT) executives flock to San Diego ...

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It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his ...

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