Unemployed Heart Failure Patients at 50% Higher Risk of Death
Research presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure reveals that unemployment is associated with a higher... Read more
New Source of Electrical Instability in the Heart
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a fundamentally new source of electrical instability that may cause cardiac... Read more
Non-O Blood Groups Have Higher Risk of Heart Attack
New research presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure shows that non-O blood group is associated with... Read more
Greater Life Expectancy With High-Volume Surgeons
A study conducted by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that surgeons who perform more than 25 mitral valve operations... Read more
Humanitarian Cardiac Surgery Outreach in Rwanda
The Sub-saharan African region faces many healthcare challenges including a shortage of doctors and specialists, inadequate access to necessary... Read more
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Zoom On: Chelsea Beecher - Innovator of the Year
Chelsea Beecher serves as the Director of Development for the American Heart & Stroke Association in New York City. She led the launch of STEM Goes Red in New York City and received the Innovator of the Year Award in 2018 for this initiative. STEM Goes Red aims to empower young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)... Read more
How are robots improving cardiovascular medicine?
Robots were first used in cardiovascular medicine in the late 1990s as a part of the digital revolution . Since then, robotics have been applied to endovascular surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and interventional cardiology, to name a few fields. Robots give medical professionals the ability to diagnose, treat, and intervene more... Read more
The Death of the Stethoscope? Heart Doctors Have Their Say
Most people don't think much about stethoscopes but the fact is that this tool, so commonly associated with doctors, is at a crossroads. Having been in use for nearly two centuries, the stethoscope is in the midst of a debate with respect to its utility in healthcare. Over the years, medical technology has advanced to a great extent. The sounds... Read more
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Establishing competence in radiology
A UK perspective. Competence in radiology is established by... Read more
Entrepreneurial Doctors
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and nowhere is... Read more
What should we stop doing in the ICU?
In this article, I highlight that the most important thing intensive... Read more
Top Target Treatments
On paper, it looks straightforward; the basis of personalised care and... Read more
Obstacles to establishing competence in radiology
Competence in radiology: difficult to define, more difficult to... Read more
Big Data and Cognitive Computing at Point of Care
The future of primary care in the global health approach Background... Read more
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