ORLANDO (March 11, 2018) -- Treatment with the blood-thinning drug dabigatran significantly reduced the risk of death, heart attack, stroke and other heart or blood-vessel...
ORLANDO (March 11, 2018) -- When patients who had a heart attack were given vouchers to cover their co-payments for medication to prevent a recurrence,...
A new study led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, the Institut Pasteur, Paris Diderot University, the CNRS and the genetics company 23andMe suggests...
A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a...
Credit: Piasecki et al. New research published today helps explain why people experience muscle loss in old age, increasing the prospects of reversing the condition...
Over a half of stroke patients require a degree of help with taking medicine and a sizeable minority say they do not receive as much...
Credit: Photo by JJ Horns. As long as there have been birdwatchers, there have been lists. Birders keep detailed records of the species they've seen...
Boston, MA -- New findings, presented today at the American College of Cardiology, provide long-term information about survival, stroke rates and durability of a novel...
Credit: Uk HealthCare ORLANDO, Fl. (Mar. 11, 2018) - Data released today from a large multi-center study provides a view into the effectiveness of two...
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Patients who undergo a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR -- a minimally-invasive surgical procedure that repairs a damaged...
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Doctors often cite the high price of a prescription drug as a reason they don't prescribe it, while patients...
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis During the third trimester, a baby's brain undergoes rapid development in utero. The cerebral cortex dramatically expands its surface...
PHILADELPHIA - Today, in a late-breaking featured clinical research session at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2018, researchers from Penn Medicine present first-of-its-kind...
Credit: Shawn Rocco/Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Doctors evaluating patients for blockages in the heart are aided by having a good roadmap of the vascular...
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienc..
