admin | October 31, 2009
Roswell Park Expands Amherst Center
Faced with an increasing demand for chemotherapy and infusion services and to help meet the needs of cancer patients from Western New York, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has expanded its Amherst Center, 100 College Park, Amherst, NY.
“The volume of patients seeking care at the Amherst Center has exceeded expectations as patients and families living in the Northtowns have found convenient parking and reduced waiting times,” said Donald L. Trump, MD, President & CEO, RPCI. “Additionally, patient satisfaction surveys indicate that they are pleased with the efficiency, comfort and convenience of this location, so it was logical to expand the services offered at this location.”
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admin | October 31, 2009
Aerobic activity makes your arteries less stiff and makes artery walls more elastic
Three months of physical activity can improve elasticity in the arteries of older adults with Type 2 diabetes, cutting down the risk of heart disease and stroke, say researchers.
Kenneth Madden, geriatric specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), studied adults between 65 and 83 years with controlled Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol to see how increased activity might ease their stiff arteries. “The theory is that aerobic activity makes your arteries less stiff and makes artery walls more elastic,” says Madden.
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admin | October 31, 2009
Hence, they’re urging people over the age of 40 to get a simple test for peripheral artery disease
(PAD).
“PAD is a serious heart disease. It’s a strong marker for heart disease and stroke,” The Globe and Mail quoted Ross Tsuyuki, a professor of medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, as saying.
The diagnostic test consists of measuring blood pressure in the leg as well as in the arm, then comparing the two. If blood pressure in the leg is 90 per cent or less than in the arm, a person likely has PAD.
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admin | October 29, 2009
State reprimand for cardiologist
Gross negligence alleged in 2 cases
By Keith Darcé
Union-Tribune
2:00 a.m. October 29, 2009
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admin | October 29, 2009
Cardiovascular Disease (Mis)Management: Billions for Acute Care, Crumbs for Prevention
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Everyone in health care pays lip service to prevention. Wellness programs are all the rage among employers. But Dr. Daniel E. Forman, director of cardiac rehabilitation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dr. Philip A. Ades, director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, assert that in reality, prevention efforts are undervalued, and physicians that focus on prevention are marginalized by the medical community. Among other problems, prevention and rehab programs are meagerly reimbursed. But the overarching obstacle, they say, is there remains, “a preference for hospitals and caregivers to promote expensive, high-tech procedures that garner prestige and immediate profit in a fee-for-service healthcare model.”
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admin | October 27, 2009
Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease
Friday October 23, 2009
Evidence from clinical trials now indicates that in patients with stable angina, medical treatment can be as effective as the more invasive treatments we hear so much about, treatments like bypass surgery, angioplasty and stents.
But what, exactly, is medical therapy for angina? It turns out that treating angina medically is an art that involves the judicious use of several treatment modalities, some of which are well-known to doctors and others less so. You can read all about the medical therapy of angina here.
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admin | October 27, 2009
Link between diabetes and heart disease scrutinized
Figuring out precisely why diabetics are more prone to heart attacks and strokes has the potential to revolutionize treatment.
The link between diabetes and heart disease is well-known — diabetics are two to four times more likely to have cardiovascular disease than nondiabetics, and two-thirds will die of an early heart attack or stroke. But the link itself is poorly understood.
“A person with diabetes and no cardiovascular history has the same risk of having a heart attack as a person who has had a prior heart attack,” said Dr. Ruchi Mathur, an endocrinologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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admin | October 27, 2009
A better remedy
BY MICHAEL D. OZNER
cardiacoz@aol.com
There’s an issue in the national healthcare conversation that no one is talking about: excessive spending on unnecessary treatments.
On Wall Street there’s a system in place — albeit a broken one — for overseeing suspect transactions and sniffing out abuse. But spending in the medical-industry marketplace continues to be largely unregulated, leading to a waste of billions of healthcare dollars.
My field of practice — cardiology — provides a dramatic example of the needless hemorrhaging of American medical resources.
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admin | October 27, 2009
Comparison study between pre and postoperative BNP measurements for predicting negative outcomes after CABG surgery
26. October 2009 04:25
Results from a clinical study presented at the 2009 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Meeting suggest that elevated preoperative levels of the B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) biomarker may predict hospital length of stay and mortality after primary coronary artery bypass graft surgery better than measurements of elevated postoperative BNP levels.
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