WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a story March 15 about hospices being slow to turn off patients' defibrillators, The Associated Press reported erroneously the proportion that had a way to identify implant recipients. The study found 20 percent had a method to do so, not one in 20.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Federal health advisers said Thursday an electronic heart implant should be approved for a large group of heart-disease patients who currently aren't eligible for the device.
ATLANTA (USA TODAY) -- Doctors who used a genetic test to personalize treatment with warfarin, the world's most widely prescribed blood thinner, cut their patients' hospitalization rates by almost a third, researchers said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients' DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the tricky dose right and keep them out of the hospital.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A prominent cardiologist accused leading heart organizations of being too cozy with industry and allowing those ties to influence its policies and education programs for doctors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off?
ATLANTA (AP) -- Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.
ATLANTA (USA TODAY) -- A drug taken for decades by millions of people with type 2 diabetes to prevent heart attacks, strokes and deaths offered no benefit in a broad group of patients, a study released Sunday shows.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday.
LONDON (AP) -- People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
SAN FRANCISCO (The New York Times News Service) -- Dr. Barry Franklin, a Michigan-based cardiologist, is a widely respected expert on nutrition and exercise and a prominent member of the American Heart Association -- and he's a pretty trim and fit guy, to boot.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
WASHINGTON - What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
WASHINGTON (Canadian Press) -- Poll results, congressional head counts and U.S. government deficits are not the only numbers President Barack Obama has to worry about. Now, he's trying to walk off a marginally high cholesterol count.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Virtually everyone has had their blood pressure measured with a pumped-up cuff encircling their upper arm. But it turns out that this commonplace medical device could one day have another critical use - reducing the amount of damage from a heart attack, researchers say.
LONDON (AP) -- People who complain they have no time to exercise may soon need another excuse.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual -- showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.
(Canadian Press) -- An international expert on heart repair says he would rarely recommend the type of heart surgery Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams received earlier this month at a Miami hospital because its only long-term benefit is cosmetic.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A critical new report declares high blood pressure in the U.S. to be a neglected disease -- a term that usually describes mysterious tropical illnesses, not a well-known plague of rich countries.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Senate report said Saturday that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.
LONDON (AP) -- You've heard it before: to avoid a heart attack don't smoke, eat right and exercise. But it also may help to be happy, a new study says.
(USA TODAY) -- When Leonor Childers' heart quit, it wasn't without reason.
NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)) -- Former US president Bill Clinton left hospital early Friday, a day after undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery.
(Associated Press) -- Bill Clinton has a new lease on life, but there's no cure for the heart disease that has twice forced the former president to get blocked arteries fixed.
LONDON (AP) -- Can you really be bored to death?
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Controversy in the death of a 25-year-old man has pitted a family active in the metro Atlanta church community against a major medical facility over a procedure generally regarded to pose little threat.
CALGARY (Canadian Press) -- Just over one-third of Canadians live too far away from a specialized hospital to get the best available treatment for a heart attack, suggests a new study.
OTTAWA (Canadian Press) -- More than 30 organizations from across Canada are forming partnerships in a $15.5-million series of initiatives designed to prevent chronic disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Canada faces a "perfect storm" of heart disease, with younger adults at increased risk of earlier onset of heart disease and the huge baby boom generation approaching their senior years, the Heart and Stroke Foundation warned Monday.
LONDON (AP) -- Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Talk about spicing things up! Move over, trans fats; salt is under fire as the next nutrition no-no on its way out from restaurant menus and processed foods.
DALLAS (AP) -- Here are the seven secrets to a long life: Stay away from cigarettes. Keep a slender physique. Get some exercise. Eat a healthy diet and keep your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar in check.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Eating healthy starts with the right ingredients -- plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two new studies find shortfalls in the Food and Drug Administration's approval process for heart devices such as pacemakers and stents.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital.
(Associated Press) -- If you've had a heart attack or a bypass operation, there's an easy way to help prevent another one: stick with rehab.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal scientists say AstraZeneca's cholesterol pill Crestor lowers the risk of heart attack, death and stroke in patients without a history of heart disease, though some safety concerns remain.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month - even worse, one in four patients with heart failure.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month -- even worse, one in four patients with heart failure.
HAVANA (AP) -- It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals are giving faster care to lots more heart attack patients, a speed-up sure to be saving lives.
STAMFORD, Conn. (The New York Times News Service) -- A disembodied voice may be talking to your doctor through his new stethoscope.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A CT scan -- a kind of super X-ray -- provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) --- You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure. It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke.
ORLANDO (USA TODAY) -- It isn't often that a study involving a couple of hundred people shakes up medical science.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin -- drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.
(Associated Press) -- If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure is no more effective and carries surprisingly big risks, a study found.
NEW YORK (AP) -- It seemed like a great idea -- doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way.
(Associated Press) -- Doctors may have a new treatment for swine flu that's already on pharmacy shelves -- cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.
(The Canadian Press) -- Heart attack symptoms in men and women are more alike than some previous studies have indicated, according to research unveiled at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment guidelines, a study suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major report confirms what health officials long have believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots reduce the risk of heart attacks among nonsmokers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle -- and then watched it beat -- by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says. American researchers observed more than 17,000 female nurses with an average age of 50 in the U.S. All of the women were healthy when the study began in 1976. Researchers then monitored the women's weight, along with other health changes, every two years until 2000.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Pushing smokers outside drives down hospitalizations for heart attacks by about 17 percent in the first year and 36 percent after three years, according to an analysis of 13 studies looking at heart-attack rates after indoor-smoking bans.
LONDON (AP) -- A common treatment for prostate cancer may slightly increase patients' risk of heart problems, new research says.
LONDON (AP) -- Heart patients who catch the flu may have more to worry about than just a fever or the sniffles: the virus could also spark a heart attack, new research shows.
LOS ANGELES -- (The New York Times News Service) -- Maria Ramos started dying on her own front porch.
NEW YORK - Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins. People getting an artery unclogged or repaired were much less likely to die or have a heart attack afterward if they took preventive doses of the pills before and after their operations, a Dutch study showed.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- A two-in-one heart device to fix irregular beats and contraction patterns cut patients' chances of developing heart failure by 41 percent, new research says.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A new generation of blood tests can quickly and reliably show if a person is having a heart attack soon after chest pains start -- a time when current tests are not definitive, two studies found.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As many as two-thirds of adults underwent a medical test in the last few years that exposed them to radiation and in some cases, a potentially higher risk of cancer, a study in five areas of the U.S. suggests.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
PHILADELPHIA (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- A worldwide shortage of radioactive isotopes is causing delays in some imaging tests for cancer and heart patients at area hospitals, doctors say.
LOS ANGELES (The New York Times News Service) -- Maria Ramos started dying on her own front porch.
LONDON (AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
(AP) -- A common method used in heart bypass surgery spares patients pain and problems upfront but seems to raise their risk of dying or suffering a heart attack over the next three years, a worrisome new study finds. The results could have a big impact - about 450,000 bypass operations are done each year in the United States and 70 percent of them use the method at issue.
LONDON (AP) -- British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eat less, live longer? It seems to work for monkeys: A 20-year study found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Harvard University scientists said Wednesday they discovered a master human heart cell that gives rise to three major types of heart tissue, providing new tools for drug development and an important advance toward the ultimate goal of repairing damaged hearts.
(Associated Press) -- You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.
(Associated Press) -- A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.
(Associated Press) -- When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours.
(NY Post) -- TV pitchman Billy Mays probably died of a heart attack and not from hitting his head during a rough airplane landing, a Florida medical examiner said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Irregular heartbeat. Prostate cancer. Back pain. Hearing loss. The government is about to spend millions to try to uncover the best treatments for scores of ailments -- and how to handle these four biggies leads a list of top 100 questions that doctors need answered.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- When Lila Kleinman left St. Francis Hospital with a pacemaker last year, she was given a list of precautions. High on the list: Don't come into contact with, or be near, a "radio transmittal tower."
(Associated Press) -- Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements -- vitamin D and fish oil -- will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, heart disease or having a stroke.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too.
(Associated Press) -- Heart attack survivors are again being enrolled in a controversial federal study of an alternative treatment while the government investigates whether they were told enough about possible health risks.
(USA TODAY) -- Prompt bypass surgery holds no advantage over intensive drug therapy in many patients with type 2 diabetes when it comes to dying from strokes or heart attacks, new research suggests.
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) -- Merck says its heart failure treatment rolofylline missed its goals in a trial, failing to improve patient symptoms compared with a placebo.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Supersized pro football players are prone to high blood pressure but fare better on some other health measures than more average-sized men, new NFL-sponsored research shows. The mixed results suggest that intense physical conditioning can help reduce but not wipe out ill effects excess weight has on heart disease-related risks.
LONDON (AP) -- Special stockings commonly given to stroke patients to prevent blood clots don't work, a new study reported Wednesday.
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