Failure in Medical News

Bioheart Announces Acceptance of Marvel-1 Data for Presentation at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Meeting

SUNRISE, Fla., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today acceptance of MARVEL-1 data for p...

Hospital Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure Patients Varies Across Nation

DALLAS, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 30-day mortality (death) and readmission rates for acute care of heart attack and heart failure patients vary significantly from hospital to hospital across the nation, according to a new study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outc...

New strategies to improve treatment and ultimately prevent heart failure in children

INDIANAPOLIS Structural cardiovascular abnormalities present at birth are the leading cause of heart failure in children. Nearly half a million children in the United States have structural heart problems ranging in severity from relatively simple issues, such as small holes between chambers of t...

Atrial fibrillation linked to increased hospitalization in heart failure patients

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with atrial fibrillation, common in those with advanced chronic heart failure, have an increased risk of hospitalization due to heart failure, according to new research from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The findings, published in June in...

Positive CHMP Opinion for JAVLOR(R) in Metastatic Treatment of Bladder Cancer After Failure of a Prior Platinum-Containing Regimen

CASTRES, France, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Laboratoires Pierre Fabre announce today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific advisory committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), has issued a positive opinion supporting approval and is recommending to ...

Heart Failure Society of America Applauds Inclusion of End-of-Life and Advanced Care Planning Measures in Senior Navigation and Planning Act

ST. PAUL, Minn., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) commends the inclusion of end-of-life planning and advanced care planning measures and directives as stated in Senate Bill 1263, The Senior Navigation and Planning Act of 2009 , recently introduced by Senator Mar...

Hospital Bedside Technology Solution Results in 74 Percent Reduction in Heart Failure Readmission Rate

Study Demonstrates Impact of Patient Engagement on Quality & Service Outcomes BETHESDA, Md., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A significant study was released today demonstrating the efficacy of Interactive Patient Care technology on improving outcomes in heart failure care. GetWellNetwork, ...

Bioheart to Introduce Improved Heart Failure Monitoring Systems at Heart Failure Nurses Annual Meeting

SUNRISE, Fla., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today that the company will be introducing its h...

New Shape-HF™ Cardiopulmonary Testing System to be on Display at 2009 American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Annual Meeting

New Shape-HF™ Cardiopulmonary Testing System to be on Display at 2009 American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Annual Meeting. Given that heart failure accounts for 15 million office visits per year and burdens the healthcare system with costs of more than $30 billion, the Shape-HF&tra...

Consumer Watchdog Praises Insurance Commissioner Poizner for Health Insurance 'Rescission' Rules, Pans Schwarzenegger Administration for Failure to Regulate HMOs

Without Parallel Rules in Dept. of Managed Health Care, Insurers Can "Discriminate...On the Basis of Which Agency Regulates" the Policy. LOS ANGELES, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a press conference today in Los Angeles, Consumer Watchdog joined California Insurance Commissioner Steve ...

Individualized treatment for heart failure is rarely available outside hospital

Telemonitoring systems, by which the symptoms of heart failure can be remotely assessed, now provide a strategy for the improved personalised care of patients, according to Professor John Cleland from the University of Hull, UK.1 He told Heart Failure Congress 2009 that the management of heart fai...

Results from 8 late-breaking clinical trials presented at Heart Failure 2009

Results and updates from eight studies were presented during a late-breaking trials session at Heart Failure 2009. Reviewing them at a press conference, Professor John McMurray, President of the Heart Failure Association, described the trials' objectives and main implications. A multicentre stu...

New Book Highlights Human Cost of FDA's Failure to Investigate Medical Devices

NEW YORK, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new history of shock treatment (electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT) - "Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment" ( Rutgers University Press) - reveals the human costs of the Food and Drug Administration's failure to ...

Quigley Corporation Receives Support from Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firms; RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis Reject Dissident Stockholder Ted Karkus, Citing Failure to Provide Detailed Business Plan

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quigley Corporation (Nasdaq: QGLY ) www.quigleyco.com , today announced that the world's leading independent proxy advisory firms RiskMetrics Group ("RMG"), (formerly ISS-Institutional Shareholder Services), and Glass Lewis & Co. have ...

Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. Announces Receipt of Notice from Nasdaq of Failure to Satisfy Continued Listing Requirements

KIBBUTZ SHAMIR, Israel, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. (Nasdaq: SHMR ) (the " Company ") a leading provider of innovative products and technology to the ophthalmic lens market, today announced that the Company received a letter on May 7, 2009 from the Nasdaq Stock ...

AIDS Action Welcomes President's Budget Increases Yet Expresses Distress With Failure to End Federal Ban on Syringe Exchange Funding

WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In his Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 10) budget request, President Barack Obama increased funding for HIV prevention and treatment and care by $107 million. In doing so, President Obama has put funding behind the vision set forth in his FY 10 budget outline of ...

Sleep apnea may not be closely linked to heart failure severity

Philadelphia, PA, 6 May 2009 Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and central sleep apnea (CSA) are not markedly decreased in heart failure (HF) patients managed with beta-blockers and spironolactone, reports a study in the March issue of Journal of Cardiac Failure ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/car...

Williams Kherkher Warns of Liver Damage, Failure from Hydroxycut

Experienced Law Firm Provides Informational Resources Regarding Hydroxycut Recall Houston, TX (PRWEB) May 5, 2009 -- In response to the recent recall of 14 Hydroxycut weight loss products, Williams Kherkher has taken action to warn the consumer public about the possibil...

Severely Abused Foster Children Sue New York City Child Welfare Agencies After their Failure to Help Them

Now residing in Florida, special needs victims are abandoned again! WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ten former foster care children are filing a civil rights and negligence lawsuit in New York District Court against the City of New York Child Welfare Administratio...

Florida Legislature Unanimously Supports 'The Alonzo Mourning Access to Care Act' to Help State's Kidney Failure Patients and the Disabled

Governor Expected to Sign Legislation to Provide Access to Medigap Secondary Insurance for Florida's Most Vulnerable Patients Next Month TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following unanimous support in the Florida House this week, the Florida Senate today also voted una...

Reduce Suffering, Urge Heart Failure Patients and Caregivers

Survey finds that psychological needs are going unmet,, FRIDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- People with heart failure, and those who care for them, want more attention paid to their psychological needs, a new study finds. "Heart failure patients and their caretakers suffer in a var...

Florida Legislature Renames Proposed Bill to Help State's Kidney Failure Patients "The Alonzo Mourning Access to Care Act"

If Passed, Legislation Will Provide Access to Medigap Secondary Insurance for Florida's Most Vulnerable Kidney Patients TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida Legislature voted today to rename a proposed bill that could help a special population of Florida's kidne...

Fatty Fish May Cut Heart Failure Risk in Men

Study finds benefit from consuming just one serving a week,, WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Men who consume fatty fish and marine omega-3 fatty acids appear to have a reduced risk of heart failure, a new study has found. Between 1998 and 2004, U.S. and Swedish researchers f...

Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives Notice of De-Listing of Its Securities for Failure to Regain Compliance with Continued Listing Requirements

HOPKINTON, Mass., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALSE ) announced that on April 9, 2009 it received a NASDAQ Staff Determination indicating that the Company has not regained compliance with the minimum $35 million market value of listed securities requi...

Heart Disease and Depression Up Heart Failure Risk

Use of antidepressants makes little difference, study finds MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- Depression increases the risk that people with heart disease caused by blockage of coronary arteries will develop heart failure, a new study finds. That finding was to be expected, said...

Cordex Pharma to Collaborate with BG Medicine in a Clinical Study of Heart Failure Biomarkers

LA JOLLA, Calif., April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cordex Pharma, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CDXP) announced today that it has agreed to collaborate with BG Medicine (BGM) in its Phase 2 clinical safety trial with CDP-1050 in heart failure patients. In this collaboration, BGM will measure l...

Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk

Waist size important in women, not men, researchers report TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Swedish studies add heart failure to the list of cardiac problems linked to overweight and obesity. "The take-home message is that body-mass index, however we measure it, is associated w...

Heart Failure Congress 2009

Heart failure is by far the most prevalent chronic cardiac condition. Around 30 million people in Europe have heart failure and its incidence is still increasing: more cases are being identified, more people are living to an old age, and more are surviving a heart attack but with damage to the hea...

American Heart Association Leads Efforts to Reduce Preventable Deaths and Rehospitalizations for Heart Failure Patients

DALLAS, April 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An article, "Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare," published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that almost 20 percent of 11,855,702 Medicare beneficiaries discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days. ...

Heart failure risk model validated

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine created the Health ABC Heart Failure Model for predicting risk of new onset heart failure in the elderly. Now that model has been strengthened by validating it in a separate library of patient data from an earlier cardiovascular study. The res...

New Surgery for Heart Failure Proves Ineffective

Isolating damaged heart tissue does not produce better outcomes, study finds,,,,,, SUNDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- A surgical procedure called ventricular reconstruction that doctors hoped would improve symptoms in people with heart failure does not seem to work, a new study has ...

High Rate of Early Heart Failure Seen in Blacks

Biggest risk factors were hypertension, obesity, study found WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks tend to develop heart failure 20 years earlier than whites, a long-running study shows. "What we found is that [early] heart failure occurs almost exclusively among blacks, an...

New target for heart failure therapy identified

(PHILADELPHIA) A novel signaling pathway plays a significant role in the production of aldosterone, a hormone that promotes heart failure after a myocardial infarction, according to a study conducted by Thomas Jefferson University researchers. The findings, which will be published online thi...

Older patients with 1 type of heart failure may receive little or no benefit from drugs

LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9 a.m. EST, March 12, 2009) People over 80 years of age suffering from a certain type of heart failure do not appear to benefit from most commonly prescribed heart medications, according to a study conducted at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and published in the Ma...

Some Elderly Heart Failure Patients Get Little Help From Meds, Study Finds

Experts say new drugs and guidelines are needed to treat diastolic dysfunction,,,, THURSDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people suffering from a type of heart disease called diastolic heart failure do not seem to benefit from the commonly prescribed heart failure drugs, resear...

Children's National Research Links Platelets to Sepsis-Related Organ Failure

Conventionally thought to be the bloodstream's "innocent bystanders," platelets may actually play a more sinister role in organ failure caused by severe sepsis Washington, DC (Vocus) March 11, 2009 -- Scientists at Children's National Medical Center have ide...

Blacks, Hispanics Less Apt to Get Best Heart Failure Care

Disparity exists even though more minorities than whites meet criteria for cutting-edge treatment FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- When black and Hispanic Medicare recipients suffer severe heart failure, they are less likely than their white counterparts to be treated with the most ...

New specialty to focus on advanced heart failure and heart transplantation

Philadelphia, 5 March 2009 The new medical subspecialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology will lead the way in providing technically advanced yet cost-effective care for patients with heart failure, says a perspective article in the March issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure...

Immune reaction to metal debris leads to early failure of joint implants

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have identified a key immunological defense reaction to the metals in joint replacement devices, leading to loosening of the components and early failure. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, won the annual William H. Harris, MD A...

Break-through Drug for Heart Failure in Dogs Now Available in the United States

Vetmedin(R) proven to nearly double life expectancy of dogs with the most common heart condition ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A break-through drug to treat congestive heart failure (CHF) in dogs is now available in the United States. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) is ...