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Preventing Heart Problems While Keeping A Cool Head redOrbit Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:14 PM PDT Cholesterol influences the health of our hearts and blood vessels. Conventional treatment attempts to reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, in the blood plasma. The opposite approach, which involves increasing the concentration of "good" HDL cholesterol using nicotinic acid, has proven unpopular among patients up to now. The reason for this is that treatment ... Seeing The Forest And The Trees Reveals Heart Problems redOrbit Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:14 PM PDT A statistical analysis of publicly available heart rate data using three classification tools - Random Forests, Logistic Model Tree and Neural Network - could lead to a rapid and precise way to diagnose heart problems, according to research in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare."Heart rate and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) are important measures that reflect the state of the ... ISHLT Issues New Guidelines For The Care Of Heart Transplant Recipients redOrbit Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:14 PM PDT Published in the Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationSince the dawn of heart transplantation in the 1960s, medical care of heart transplant recipients has varied from center to center and been guided by the experience of individual clinicians. The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has made an unprecedented commitment by convening experts in all areas of heart ... Heart failure care improved by performance intervention at outpatient cardiology practices Science Daily Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:11 PM PDT A new study tested a new performance intervention to help improve adherence to national guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure patients in an outpatient setting. Although several programs have helped improve heart failure patient care in the hospital, this is the largest performance improvement intervention on the use of national guideline-recommended therapies in an outpatient clinic ... Providence St. Peter Hospital earns national recognition for stroke care South Sound Business Examiner Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:10 PM PDT Providence St. Peter Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines Stroke Silver Plus Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.The award recognizes consistent use of the most recent scientific guidelines for heart disease and stroke treatment. ... Surprise police: Man negligent in guard's fatal heart attack The Arizona Republic Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:51 PM PDT A security guard had a heart attack and died while responding to a call for help at a party. Regado Biosciences Announces Publication in the American Heart Association Journal Circulation of the Results of a ... PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:05 PM PDT Regado Biosciences, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of a novel two-component antithrombotic drug technology consisting of therapeutic aptamers with their matched active control agents, announced publication of results from a Phase 2a study for its lead compound, the REG1 system. Â The study is known as REVERSAL-PCI. Â The company's REG1 technology, a ... Childhood Cancer May Be Linked to Later Heart Problems HealthDay via Yahoo! News Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:02 PM PDT MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Children who survive cancer may be at increased risk for long-term heart problems, new research suggests. HD scanner spots heart problems early BigPond News Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:46 PM PDT A new high-definition body scanner is giving doctors the clearest ever view inside the human body. Health Notes: Improve your smile ... free Daily Press Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:37 PM PDT Look after your mouth and teeth first -- and the rest of your body will benefit too. Heart disease, stroke and diabetes have all been shown to have links to oral health.

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