• Editorial

    Dear readers, Better management practices can have a profoundly positive impact on the efficiency of any medical department. An exchange of management information and experiences will inevitably allow for a more efficient and patient-orientated provision of services, as well as a more informed medical team. While at a general hospital...

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  • An Innovative Wireless Telecardiological Monitoring System

    Heart-related diseases and disorders are abundant in the western world. Around 500,000 cases of sudden cardiac death, over three million patients with atrial fibrillation and about 600,000 heart attacks are a significant factor in the cost structure of the European healthcare system every year. The Need for a Cardiological Home Monitoring System...

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  • ISHR/Servier Research Fellowship Winner Announced

    The ISHR-ES SERVIER Research Fellowship has been presented to Dr Marta Roccio, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Cardiology and Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dr Roccio's project is titled: "Molecular mechanisms of cardiac progenitor cells differentiation". This 20,000 Euro grant...

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  • Schering-Plough Corporation Prices Public 0ffering

    Schering-Plough Corporation has announced that it priced its registered public offering of 50,000,000 common shares at $27.50 per share. The underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 7,500,000 common shares from Schering- Plough. Schering-Plough also announced that it has concurrently priced its registered public offering of 10,000,000...

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  • Cardiatis Completes Stent Trial Recruitment

    Cardiatis of Brussels, Belgium, has completed recruitment of patients into its first-in-man European clinical trial of its FluidSmart 3D multilayer braided stent for repairing aneurysms. Patient recruitment, which began in December last year, culminates four years of extensive concept testing that demonstrated the ability of the 3D multilayer stent...

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  • Use of Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure:Improving Clinical and Economical Effectiveness

    Multiple hospital admissions for acute decompensation are characteristic for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients, deleteriously affecting their quality of life and imposing a major burden on national healthcare costs. The direct costs of CHF-related hospitalisations amount to 2.7 billion Euro per year. Due to the demographic evolution of European...

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