Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Feb 23, 2012. Public Health Grand Rounds Heart disease and stroke are, respectively, the first and fourth leading causes of death in the United States. Cardiovascular disease alone is responsible for 1 of every 3 deaths in the U.S. and costs the nation $444 billion per year in […]
Relationship of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale to 30-Day Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Ischemic Stroke American Heart Association: Feb 21, 2012. Gregg C. Fonarow, MD; Jeffrey L. Saver, MD; Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH; Joseph P. Broderick, MD; Dawn O. Kleindorfer, MD; Ralph L. Sacco, MD; Wenqin Pan, PhD; DaiWai M. Olson, PhD; […]
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — New research finds foreign-born Hispanics now living in the United States appear to be less likely to have a stroke compared to non-Hispanic white people. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. The research is […]
Reuters – Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:14pm EST. Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study. Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank […]
US Health News (HealthDay News) – THURSDAY, Feb. 16, 2012. Average medical costs for a stroke patient with language impairment (aphasia) are more than $1,700 higher in the first year after stroke than for a patient without aphasia, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 3,200 Medicare patients in South Carolina who had […]
Medical News Today – Article Date: 23 Feb 2012 – 0:00 PST For the first time in a new U.S. clinical trial, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have used the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System (EAS) to correct abnormal electrical signals inside the heart of a patient affected by atrial fibrillation (AFib), one of the nation’s most […]
Government Health IT – Mary Mosquera | February 22, 2012. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality wants to develop a searchable Registry of Patient Registries, which are databases that track the experience of individuals with diseases and conditions, to encourage collaboration and information sharing. The registry will catalog patient registries in a model similar tohttp://clinicaltrials.gov/ “>ClinicalTrials.gov, which lists […]
FDA’s mission is to ensure that safe and effective new drugs are available as quickly as possible and that drugs already marketed remain safe and of the highest quality for as long as the drugs remain on the U.S. market. As part of this authority, industry should be on notice that FDA intends to vigorously enforce […]
Bio-IT World By Ann Neuer | February 21, 2012 Imagine buying a new car or a new house but not knowing the price until the papers have already been drawn up and it’s time to sign on the dotted line. According to Christine Pierre, President of RxTrials, that’s exactly the situation investigative sites face as they attempt to […]
Future-Science: Paul Wicks: February 2012. Information (or data) wants to be free’ – so goes the mantra of hackers and data activists. In the past this meant computer geeks hacking into secure private networks to fulfill their own curiosity or liberate secret knowledge. Today, voluntary ‘data liberation’, as practiced by governments and corporations, is relatively commonplace and […]
