The Arrhythmia Alliance Excellence In Practice Awards 2008 (Medical News Today)

The Arrhythmia Alliance is proud to announce that entries for the Arrhythmia Alliance Excellence in Practice awards 2008 are now open. These prestigious awards aim to recognise outstanding achievements and contributions to arrhythmia management services.

Cutting Edge Technology For Arrhythmia Highlighted At Heart Rhythm Congress 2008 - Siemens Innovations Designed To ... (Medical News Today)

Siemens Healthcare offers a range of cardiac imaging solutions for minimally invasive routine procedures, advanced magnetic navigation electrophysiology and hybrid solutions for the operating theatre environment.

Warfarin underused by patients at risk for stroke (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

New research indicates that most patients with atrial fibrillation -- the most common type of heart arrhythmia -- who suffered a stroke and were eligible for anticoagulation treatment, were not taking any warfarin or were not taking enough.

Finding 'Lost' Survivors Of Congenital Heart Defects: Stanford Hospital Program Provides Care To Adults Born With ... (Medical News Today)

Hand a napkin to Jim Wong, and he can quickly diagram the four things that are wrong with his heart. Between sips of coffee, he chats casually about how surgeons implanted one artificial valve, repaired a second valve, sewed up a small hole between the two upper heart chambers and did a maze procedure to stop the arrhythmia that hindered his heartbeat. But Wong considers himself lucky.

How Medical Records Can Save Your Life (ABC News)

Keeping good medical records can safeguard your health, one doctor explains.

Editor Named for New Journal - Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics Debuts in October (Newswise)

The American Heart Association has set an October launch date for its sixth new cardiology subspecialty journal - Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. This is the last in the launch of six new journals, appearing under the banner of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Medicine tailored to your genome, not your race: Venter (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter said Tuesday.

Medicine tailored to your genome, not your race: Venter (TODAYonline)

Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter, pictured in 2007, said Tuesday.

New cardio risk factors seen after joint surgery (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

In addition to confirming previously identified risk factors for cardiovascular complications after total joint replacement surgery, researchers have now found that bilateral (involving both sides of the body, such as two hip or knee replacements), as well as revision operations, are associated with increased risk.

Highly caffeinated drinks do more than keep you awake; they also can seriously harm your health (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Teens have been popping the tabs on soda cans for decades. And for decades, parents and health experts have harped about the sugar overload packed into every 12-ounce can.

Cutting Edge Technology For Arrhythmia Highlighted At Heart Rhythm...

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound Siemens Healthcare offers a range of cardiac imaging solutions for minimally invasive routine procedures, advanced magnetic ...

The Arrhythmia Alliance Excellence In Practice Awards 2008

The Arrhythmia Alliance is proud to announce that entries for the Arrhythmia Alliance Excellence in Practice awards 2008 are now open.

[Cellular Biology] RXP-E: A Connexin43-Binding Peptide That Prevents...

From the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology/Immunology , State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse; Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmias and ...

OSU Medical Center Study To Test New Blood-Thinning Drug

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Researchers here are among scientists nationally evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a treatment created to reduce the incidence of stroke, a debilitating condition suffered by thousands ...

September 2008 is Atrial Fibrillation Month Focusing on Life-Threatening Irregular Heartbeat

Once considered benign, this cardiac arrhythmia can actually lead to congestive heart failure or stroke.

[Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology] Cardiac Memory in Patients With...

From the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center , Department of Biomedical Engineering , and Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology , Washington University, St Louis, Mo; Division of Pediatric Cardiology, ...

[Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology] Neural Mechanisms of Paroxysmal Atrial ...

From the Division of Cardiology , Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif; Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and Neurology , Indiana University School of ...

Editor Named for New Journal - Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics Debuts in October

News from Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics DALLAS, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Heart Association has set an October launch date for its sixth new cardiology subspecialty journal -- ...

1,000 will learn how to do CPR, use defibrillator

Officials — like Gidget Swift with the American Red Cross, shown here practicing CPR — and others from The Methodist Hospital System, the Texas Arrhythmia Institute and the Houston Texans will ...

[Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology] Physical Activity and Incidence of...

From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard ...