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Heart-patient caregivers at risk for same fate  -  25 Mar 2008
Asbury Park Press,By ED EDELSON â€¢ HEALTHDAY â€¢ March 25, 2008 Taking care of someone with a serious heart problem may raise your own risk of cardiac disease, a new study finds

Bathroom Scale Vs. Pay Scale: How Celebrity Weight Affects The Job  -  25 Mar 2008
Starpulse.com,How many producers pull actors aside on set to warn against cardiac disease? How many tabloid covers splash real-sized women across their pages and dissect

Auriga Laboratories Announces The Launch Of Extendryl(R) PEM And ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...hypertension, cardiac disease, hyperthyroidism, urinary retention, peptic ulcer, patients on MAO inhibitor therapy and during an asthmatic attack.

Family Cardiac Caregivers May Have Higher Heart Disease Risk  -  Mar 12, 2008
Science Daily (press release)12, 2008) â€” Caring for a family member with a serious heart ailment may increase your risk of cardiac disease, according to a report presented at the

Why CT Is a Mainstay Technology for Assessing Cardiac Disease  -  Mar 20, 2008
Medscape (subscription)Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is emerging as an important tool in the imaging evaluation of patients with cardiac diseases, particularly coronary artery

Rheumatic heart disease remains serious health threat to Yemenis  -  Mar 18, 2008
Yemen Observer,The study found that males are more affected with cardiac disease than females: more than half of suffering patients were male. However, female patients are

Keeping the 'grave' out of 'graveyard shift'  -  Mar 24, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,That could explain some studies that show higher rates of cardiac disease and metabolic syndromes in night-shift workers. According to the CDC report,

Heart problems affect young: conference  -  Mar 13, 2008
The Age,..."GPs work at the coalface of general practice and cardiac disease is the number one cause of death in Australia so we have all got a big job to do," Dr

ED Is a Predictor of Cardiac Disease: A Urologic Perspective  -  Feb 26, 2008
Renal and Urology News,By Natan Bar-Chama , MD , ERECTILE dysfuction (ED), defined as the inability to reach or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance

HCMC cardiac program keeps rehab patients active  -  Mar 20, 2008
Northeast Georgian,..."We've been playing this crew since we met them in Chicago," said Dr. Stuart Sanders, the director of Habersham Cardiac Disease Reversal and Rehabilitation

Caregivers of Family Heart Patients Appear to Increase Their Own Risk  -  Mar 17, 2008
SeniorJournal.com,Researchers hypothesized also that family members of a hospitalized heart patient might think at the time about their own risk of cardiac disease.

Heart Troubles for Cardiac Caregivers  -  Mar 13, 2008
Ivanhoe,Researchers found caring for a family member with a serious heart condition may actually increase your risk of cardiac disease.

Moderate Alcohol Consumption In Middle Age Can Lower Cardiac Risk ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...began consuming moderate amounts of alcohol saw an immediate benefit of lower cardiac disease morbidity with no change in mortality after four years.

New law would extinguish smoking in cars with kids  -  Mar 23, 2008
Barry's Bay This Week,Second-hand smoke can attribute to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, asthma and cardiac disease in children. On March 5, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced heâ€™ll

Taking a Closer Look at the Inuit Paradox and Cardiovascular Disease  -  Mar 20, 2008
Natural News.com,Along with his book, an accompanying video will give cardiac disease sufferers a very effective alternative to common drug therapies which have been

NuView Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. Executes Exclusive License with ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
PR Newswire (press release),...new diagnostic imaging agent which may facilitate the rapid identification of patients with cardiac disease who might benefit from early intervention.

Women's cardiac care under focus  -  Mar 18, 2008
GulfNews,By Sunita Menon, Staff Reporter Dubai: A worldwide health initiative, Go Red for Women, which aims to spread awareness on the single biggest killer of women

Research indicates cardiovascular disease is different for women  -  Mar 1, 2008
HaLifeBoth sexes generally experience the same classic signs of cardiac disease and arrest: But one-third of women who suffer heart attacks report no chest pain,

Families cope with infant surgeries, care  -  Mar 23, 2008
2TheAdvocate,...by Michael Crapanzano, a pediatric cardiologist, provides support, including medical equipment, to families of children suffering from cardiac disease.

News flash: Cats are good for your health  -  Mar 23, 2008
Eagle Tribune,...and executive director of the Minneapolis-based Stroke Center, says, "We know that stress and anxiety are factors leading to cardiac disease.

Jump Rope for Heart teaches health education  -  Mar 20, 2008
Daily Home Online,According to the AHA, even as adults become more susceptible to heart problems, such health issues as cardiac disease, high cholesterol and obesity are

Tapping miRNA-Regulated Pathways  -  Feb 29, 2008
Genetic Engineering News (press release),...role miRNAs might have in the systematic deterioration that can lead to age-dependent diseases such as cardiac disease, osteoporosis, and Alzheimerâ€™s.

Effect of tumor necrosis factor a inhibitors on heart failure risk ...  -  Feb 27, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),..."Screening for cardiac risk factors and effective treatment of both the rheumatic disorder and the cardiac disease are essential," Dr. Listing stresses.

$50 Million Gift to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
HealthNewsDigest.com,...interactive education resource center that will include the latest medical information on heart diseaseâ€”with an added focus on cardiac disease in women.

ECG Standards Should Be Revised For Elderly, Researchers Urge  -  Mar 18, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Just under 18 percent of all patients had a history of cardiac disease. Basing their reference ranges on the healthy subgroup -- 578 patients who either had

Audit needed on cardiology services  -  Mar 12, 2008
Irish Medical Times,...â€œThere is no publicly approved inherited cardiac disease specialist in Ireland,â€? she told IMT. Dr Ward has set up a full-time inherited cardiac disease

Smoking in cars when children present should be banned  -  Mar 24, 2008
Brantford Expositor,Second-hand smoke can lead to asthma and cardiac disease. As Premier Dalton McGuinty said, "one hour of second-hand smoke is the same for a young child as

New Book by UCSB Scholar Examines Presidential Illness and ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
UC Santa Barbara,In addition to Wilson's stroke and subsequent psychological and neurological limitations, McDermott examines FDR's severe cardiac disease, including how it

Nearly Half of W.Va.'s 5th-Graders Are Obese or Overweight  -  Mar 19, 2008
RedOrbit,Those problems, which can lead to cardiac disease and other illnesses, are more difficult to treat when children become adults. "I see it every day," said

Dr. Debbie Jackson: Possibles causes of recurring leg pain  -  Mar 17, 2008
Anderson Independent Mail (subscription),PAD, defined as atherosclerosis of the legs, is progressive and is associated with an increased risk of cardiac disease. It is the same disease process that

The Origins of the Cholesterol Con  -  Mar 3, 2008
AlterNet,...both doctors and the mainstream media to take a second look at the received wisdom that "bad cholesterol" plays a major role in causing cardiac disease.

Guide For Veterinarians Includes Unusual Species Adopted Into ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...stroke or cardiac disease" Did that frog swallow something it shouldn't have" The book offers guidance on these and myriad other potential therapeutic

Heart failure and student-athletes  -  Mar 13, 2008
Queen's Journal,...shown that one in 500 people has a disorder called hypertropic cardiomypathy, and an estimated one in every 15000 joggers will die from cardiac disease.

Certain Oral Contraceptives May Pose Health Risks, Study Suggests  -  Mar 11, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...we are seeing are important not just for the arm but probably for most of the major arteries in the body, and this is important for cardiac disease.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Market Trends  -  Mar 4, 2008
OBBeC.com,...for demonstrating the morphology of the heart and find application in the detection of structural cardiac disease, such as congenital heart disease.

Emory Participates in NIH Network to Study Cardiovascular Disease  -  Mar 1, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),Emory University was recently awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Institute of Healthâ€™s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to

Many of us donâ€™t recognise our mortality  -  Feb 24, 2008
Times Online,As a 38-year-old father of two who eats too much and exercises too little, I feel like a case study in a cardiac disease doomsday report.

Heart surgeons finish record week at GMH  -  Mar 17, 2008
Pacific Daily News,..."Cardiac disease is always here. It has never been absent on this island. The easy thing to do is to send patients off island. Instead we are building this

Carotid Plaque Thickness Associated with Risk of Vascular Events ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
MedPage Today,...those with a history of hypertension, diabetes, or cardiac disease, current smokers, and those with an LDL cholesterol level of 130 or higher.

Rights of mentally ill youth must be a national priority  -  Mar 20, 2008
ChronicleHerald.ca,If 15 to 20 per cent of our young people suffered from cardiac disease, there would be a national campaign for the treatment of heart problems in every

Testing provides insight  -  Mar 17, 2008
The Courier News,Link recommends the screening for anyone over 55, and younger if the person's family has a history of cardiac disease. She said people under 18 do not need

Detroit Zoo Announces Death of Gorilla  -  Mar 11, 2008
WXYZ,Anyone wishing to make a contribution in Sunshineâ€™s memory to fund either the national research effort on captive gorilla cardiac disease or care of the

Caring for the Complex Senior Patient in Ambulatory Care  -  Mar 11, 2008
Medscape (subscription)...concentration difficulty, irritability, agitation, and distractibility include including cardiac disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, post stroke,

Researchers Say Electrocardiographic Ranges Should Be Revised for ...  -  Mar 18, 2008
DG NewsForty-six percent (n = 331) were men, and nearly 18% of all patients had a history of cardiac disease. Basing their reference ranges on the healthy subgroup

Nursing home under fire  -  Mar 21, 2008
San Mateo Daily Journal,He died a week later of cardiac disease and a Sequoia doctor contacted authorities as mandated by law. After a year of investigation, Paredes was served

A drop of blood to save your heart  -  Feb 24, 2008
Charleston Post Courier,By Jill Coley (Contact) Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Reenie McClure gives an echocardiogram to Beth Roberts, of Georgetown,

Knowing about heart health can save your life  -  Mar 4, 2008
Lancaster Eagle Gazette,...the American Heart Association, women are 26 percent more likely than men to suffer heart failure and death as their first symptom of cardiac disease.

Detroit Zoo gorilla dies  -  Mar 11, 2008
DetNews.com,Donations to fund either the national research effort on captive gorilla cardiac disease or care of the Detroit Zoo's Great Apes of Harambee can be sent to:

Form 4 Oracle: Boston, MA -- Form4Oracle: Insider Trading Report ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Form4Oracle, LLC specializes in distributing insider trading information published by the SEC, making it accessible and actionable for all types of

Heart Foundation Needs More Help  -  Feb 27, 2008
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service,..."We will be able to do CPR classes on site and eventually we want to start a cardiac disease prevention and rehabilitation programme," she explained.

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