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...
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Failure in Medical Products
Dx/Rx: Heart Failure
Description: Dx/Rx: Heart
Failure has tables and figures that summarize important clinical data and current professional society recommendations and up-to-date information for diagnosis and treatment of Heart Failure....
Company:Skyscape, Inc.
Atlas II HF ICD Family
Description:...s. In patients indicated for an ICD, the Atlas II HF systems are also intended:
to provide a reduction of the symptoms of moderate to severe heart
failure (NYHA Functional Class III or IV) in those patients who remain symptomatic despite stable, optimal medical therapy (as defined in the clinical trials ...
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.
NGAL Rapid ELISA Kit
Description:... NGAL (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, lipocalin-2) is a new early marker for acute renal injury, predicting acute renal
failure with a >90% positive predictive value. NGAL is dramatically increased, especially in urine, as early as 2 hours after renal injury. This makes NGAL an...
Company:AntibodyShop A/S
PSE Electrophoresis Power Supply
Description:...age, mA and timer adjustable during a run • Timer for automatic stop (0 to 9999 min) • Automatic restart with audible alarm in case of power
failure during a run • Battery-backed memory feature for the last run • Simultaneous running of three electrophoresis units...
Company:Elchrom Scientific AG
CardioSight Service
Description:...d information applicable to the treatment of heart
failure to help specialty physicians discern if the heart
failure patients symptoms are stable or deteriorating. For example, heart
failure physicians following patients with a Medtronic InS...
Company:Medtronic Inc.
Leptin IRMA Test
Description:...veral measures of adiposity (e.g. body mass index (BMI) or percent body fat) demonstrates that leptin levels are elevated even in obese patients. The
failure of these elevated leptin levels to alter the obese state of these individuals may be related to a leptin resistance and an inability of leptin to ente...
Company:Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
Failure in Medical Definition
Arterial stiffness
...ry stiffening. Increased aortic PWV has been shown to predict cardiovascular and in some cases all cause mortality in individuals with end stage renal
failure (Blacher et al.,Circulation. 1999; 99: 2434–2439), hypertension (Laurent et al., Hypertension. 2001; 37: 1236–1241), diabetes mellitus (Cruickshank et...
Atransferrinemia
... . The iron damage to the heart can lead to heart
failure . The anemia is typically microcytic and hypochr...and hypothyroidism . Death may occur due to heart
failure or pneumonia .
Genetics
T... on a 7-year-old girl who passed away from heart
failure with atransferrinemia. The half-normal levels of t...
Autoimmune regulator
... the development of a range of autoimmune diseases, the most common clinical conditions in the syndrome are hypoparathyroidism, primary adrenocortical
failure and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. [1] AIRE is expressed primarily in the thymus.
A gene knockout of the murine homolog Aire has created ...
Cachexia
... for that condition; now it is seen less frequently in those countries where such treatment is available. In those patients who have Congestive Heart
failure , there is also a cachectic syndrome. Also, a cachexia co-morbidity is seen in patients that have any of the range of illnesses classified as " COPD "...
Fat transfer
...engths of time fat is reported remaining in the body, many physicians and other researchers worldwide since the 1980s have tracked success, safety and
failure rates of fat transfer. [4] [5]
In most applications, fat injections are laid down through several different layers of skin and muscle to p...
Excoriation
...g/pruritus: dry skin, dermatitis , atopic dermatitis , scabies , etc. The condition is characteristic of a symptom of other illnesses like liver
failure where pruritus is caused by increases of bilirubin .
It is usually associated with neurotic excoriations . Neurotic excoriations are considered...
Failure in Medical Dictionary
Kidney Failure
Renal
failure or kidney
failure is a situation in which the kidneys fail to function adequately. It is divided into acute and chronic forms; either form may be due to a large number of other medical problems. Acute renal
failure (ARF), also known as acute kidney
failure or acut...
Heart failure
Fact sheet about congestive heart
failure from the National Heart , Lung, and Blood Institute. Learn what causes the condition, what the signs and symptoms are, ... Collection of news, research, and other resources about congestive heart
failure . Find sites about heart
failure diag...
Congestive Heart Failure
Online reference to congestive heart
failure , with information about what causes the condition, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, and the long-term ... Information on heart disease and related cardiovascular conditions includes ... View All 34 Congestive Heart Failure...
Chronic renal failure
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), also known as chronic renal disease, is a progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years. The symptoms of worsening kidney function are unspecific, and might include feeling generally unwell and experiencing a reduced... Renal fail...
Cardiac Failure
Heart
failure (HF) is a condition in which a problem with the structure or function of the heart impairs its ability to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body's needs. It should not be confused with cardiac arrest . Overview: Heart
failure is the pathophysiologic state in w...
Acute renal failure
Acute renal
failure (ARF), also known as acute kidney
failure or acute kidney injury, is a rapid loss of renal function due to damage to the kidneys, resulting in retention of nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous waste products... Renal
failure or kidney
failure is a situation in w...
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Failure in Biological News
Study explains potential failure of oral contraceptives with obese women
PORTLAND, Ore. Researchers have identified a potential biological mechanism that could explain why oral contraceptives may be less effective at preventing pregnancy in obese women, as some epidemiological studies have indicated.
Although conventional oral contraceptives appear to eventually re...
Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 -- a potential link between heart failure and diabetes
Researchers at the University of Vermont Cardiovascular Research Institute, Colchester, Vermont have found that increased expression in the heart of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) is profibrotic. The results, which appear in the March 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medici...
Moderate use averts failure of type 2 diabetes drugs in animal model
Drugs widely used to treat type 2 diabetes may be more likely to keep working if they are used in moderation, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found in a study using an animal model.
The drugs, sulfonylureas, help type 2 diabetics make more insulin, impr...
Genetic variant mimics effect of heart failure medications
A genetic variation, found predominantly in African Americans, protects some people with heart failure, enabling them to live longer than expected. Thats the conclusion of a research team led by investigators at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and the Washing...
Certain diseases, birth defects may be linked to failure of protein recycling system
CINCINNATI - A group of signaling proteins known as Wnt - which help build the human bodys skin, bone, muscle and other tissues - depend on a complex delivery and recycling system to ensure their transport to tissue-building cell sites, according to a study at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical...
Penn-Wistar team gains insight into HIV vaccine failure
PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2009) A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania reports new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized
failure in 2007 of the Merck STEP HIV vaccine study that cast doubt on the feasibility of HIV-1 vaccines....
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Palatin Technologies, Inc. Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Heart Failure Drug Candidate
CRANBURY, N.J., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PTN ) announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its U.S. Patent Application Number 11/694,260, titled "Cyclic Natriuretic Peptide Constructs...
United States FDA Clears the REGEN Trial to Test Bioheart's Combination Gene and Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure Patients
SUNRISE, Fla., July 28 /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 US FDA cleared a p...
PeriCor Therapeutics Reports Positive Preclinical Results of GP531 at the European Heart Failure Congress in Nice
Adenosine Regulation with GP531 Improves the Heart's Pumping Function in Dogs with Advanced Chronic Heart
Failure
NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PeriCor Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that positive preclinical results of its novel cardioprotective agent, GP531, were reported in a poster...
Nile Therapeutics CD-NP Clinical Program for Acute Heart Failure Released From Clinical Hold by FDA
SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX ), a company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for heart
failure patients, received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the agency has released the Company's CD-N...
Savient Announces New Date for FDA Arthritis Advisory Panel Review of KRYSTEXXA(TM) for Treatment Failure Gout
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVNT ) today announced that its biologics license application (BLA) for KRYSTEXXA (TM) (pegloticase), a novel biological drug for treatment
failure gout (TFG) patients, will be reviewed by the Arthritis...
Disability and Poor Quality of Life Associated With Treatment Failure Gout Patients
New Study Published in the Journal of Rheumatology Examines Quality of Life and Disability in Treatment
Failure Gout Patients
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVNT ) announced today the print publication of the Savient-supported lo...
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Failure in Biological Products
Porcine Leptin ELISA Kit from Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
Description:...veral measures of adiposity (e.g. body mass index (BMI) or percent body fat) demonstrates that leptin levels are elevated even in obese patients. The
failure of these elevated leptin levels to alter the obese state of these individuals may be related to a leptin resistance and an inability of leptin to ente...
Company:Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
Failure in Biological Definition
Alcohol
...l, larger doses result in a state known as drunkenness or intoxication and, depending on the dose and regularity of use, can cause acute respiratory
failure or death and with chronic use can cause severe health problems, such as liver and brain damage.
Other alcohols are substantially more poisonous ...
Antibiotic
...f antibiotic misuse include taking an inappropriate antibiotic, in particular the use of antibacterials for viral infections like the common cold, and
failure to take the entire prescribed course of the antibiotic, usually because the patient feels better before the infecting organism is completely eradicate...
Apoptosis
...programmed cell death, excess of apoptotic material and altered clearance may induce autoreactive immune responses. On the other side of the spectrum,
failure to die, as exemplified in MRL/1pr mice and human lymphoproliferative disorder, may allow persistence of autoreactive cells and prevent the resolution ...
Cancer
...ypes, this is otherwise a generalization. Some types of cancer have a prognosis that is substantially better than nonmalignant diseases such as heart
failure and stroke . Nonetheless, in the late 1990's cancer overtook heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United Kingdom, and in 2002 the sam...
Colchicine
...h and throat, fever , vomiting , diarrhea , abdominal pain and kidney
failure . Death from respiratory
failure can follow. There is no antidote.
Laboratory use
In laboratory setti...
Diabetes mellitus
...iovascular disease (doubled risk), chronic renal
failure (it is the main cause for dialysis ), retinal d...t from unnoticed type 2 diabetes, including renal
failure , and coronary artery disease .
Type 2 diabete...due to microangiopathy ) which can lead to renal
failure
Large vessel disease complications:
...
Failure in Biological Dictionary
Vessel cell
...ctionary has the exact definition. Good luck! Yielding of the vessel cell wall can occur under the combination of tensile ... Hence the mode of
failure of the vessel cell wall is a function of the material ... ... into specific cell types such as neurons and blood vessel cells, but they wer...
Trophoblast
... Trophoblasts become inert during pregnancy and are completely ...
failure of the trophoblast to invade sufficiently is ... Trophoblast (Cytotrophoblast, ... trophoblast ( ) n. The outermost layer of cells of t...
Tricuspid valve
...pid valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle of the heart. ... the primary causes of tricuspid valve dysplasia, is the
failure ... ...
Testes
...e testes . 4.3 Effects of exogenous hormones ... Tes·te n. [So called fr. L. teste , abl. of testis a witness, because this was formerly the ...
failure of the testes to descend is known as cryptochordism. ... Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... The testes produce...
Suppression
...for thousands of great items like the Fire Suppression System. Information about suppression in the free online English ... suppression - the
failure to develop some part or organ ... suppression ... ... Suppression ... Surge Suppression Is Our Only Business! Please watch a ... Surge Sup...
Single locus probe
... single locus hypervariable DNA probe systems require answers to the following: ... with most single locus hypervariable DNA probe systems,
failure ... Appendix A: Schematic of Single - Locus Probe RFLP Analysis 311 ... The probe is a single strand of DNA ... The DNA locus identified...