New Score Predicts Risk for Death on Heart Transplant List
Allocation score, called the US candidate risk score (US-CRS), outperformed the current therapy-based 6-status system in rank ordering heart transplant candidates by medical urgency.
Near-Death Experiences During CPR: An Impetus for Better Care
If someone has been in cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, the brain is permanently damaged and there's nothing to do, right?
Not so according to emerging evidence that suggests that the brain shows signs of electrical recovery for as long as an hour into ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This time between cardiac arrest and awakening can be a period of vivid experiences for the dying patient before they return to life — a phenomenon known as "recalled death."
Announcement of the European Congress of Cardiology
From August 31 to September 4, 2019, he Congress of the European Society of Cardiology in conjunction with the World Congress of Cardiology - will be held in Paris (France).
Trial Evaluating Sacubitril/Valsartan for HFpEF Misses Primary End Point
Full detailed data from PARAGON-HF will be presented at the ESC Congress 2019 in September.
Novartis announced topline results from the phase 3 PARAGON-HF study evaluating the safety and efficacy of sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
ESC Congress 2019 together with World Congress of Cardiology
Full detailed data from PARAGON-HF will be presented at the ESC Congress 2019 in September.
Novartis announced topline results from the phase 3 PARAGON-HF study evaluating the safety and efficacy of sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
Certain Social, Behavioral Factors Associated With Diabetes and Hypertension Onset
Education and exercise may determine early start of diabetes and hypertension.
Select behavioral and social risk factors were correlated with early onset of hypertension and diabetes, a prospective cohort study found.
At 3.5 years of follow-up, among the patients without diabetes at baseline, 4% developed diabetes, while 6.4% of the cohort without baseline hypertension developed hypertension, reported Matthew Pantell, MD, MS, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.
THE FEATS OF DOCTORS DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (WORLD WAR II)
During the war years, more than 700 thousand doctors and medical professionals worked at the front. At the end of the war, 12.5% of all these people were killed, and this figure seriously exceeds the losses in each individual military unit. But despite the danger, they never gave up, and in the most extreme situations only the iron will helped them to pull hundreds of people from the other world, and again to return to the battlefields. They achieved amazing results, and during the entire war, thanks to medical workers, about 72 percent of wounded soldiers and 90 percent of sick people, that is, approximately 17 million people, returned to the system.
The Congress for Cardiology and Internal medicine of Asian and CIS countries
On April 26 - 27, 2019, the Congress for Cardiology and Internal medicine of Asian and CIS countries was held in Dushanbe (Tajikistan). The congress was organized by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Tajikistan and the Cardioprogress Foundation. In the opening ceremony, the Minister, Professor Olimzoda Nasim Khoja addressed the participants with greetings.
Stress-Related Disorders Increase CVD Risk
Stress-related disorders may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially during the first year after diagnosis, a large study shows.
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