]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/congestive-heart-failure Blog Articles Tagged with 'congestive-heart-failure' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sleepdoctor/926907?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Several medical bloggers have posted about a recent study in which increased sleep time was associated with a decreased incidence of coronary artery disease (as measured by coronary artery calcification).The problem with these observational studies l... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sleepdoctor/926907?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:49:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-holistic-health/927160?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure There are many diseases of the heart including coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular disease, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, inflammatory heart disease, and also valvular heart disease.Coronary he... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-holistic-health/927160?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:39:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-william-barretts-blog/925496?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure At the recent meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, November 8th through 9th in Dallas, Texas, several papers were reported on infection and complication rates after joint replacement. A paper by Steve Kurtz, PhD, looked at a ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-william-barretts-blog/925496?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:18:54 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/924384?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure In 2007 researchers believed the diabetes drug Avandia might triple heart risks. And now they know for sure! A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals elderly diabetics taking rosiglitazone, the other name for Avandia, were more likely... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/924384?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:32:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/920990?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure When the number of authors on a paper approach the number of patients in one arm of a prospective, randomized trial... heads up.I have just finished reading an article that appeared yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (Khan MN et al., P... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/920990?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:21:23 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/919216?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure By Caleb HellermanCNN Medical Senior ProducerA few weeks ago I saw something extraordinary: the medical planning book for one of President Bush s presidential trips. It was almost three dozen pages. Not a briefing book, not a policy paper, just col... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/919216?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:03:56 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/915811?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure The Pitfalls of Linking Doctors Pay to Performance The program is called pay for performance, P4P for short. Employers and insurers, including Medicare, have started about 100 such initiatives across the country. The general intent is to reward ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/915811?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:37:19 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/915807?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Everybody s trying to figure out how to create a health system that ties payments to the quality of care. But measuring quality of care is maddeningly difficult.In an essay in this morning s New York Times, a physician describes the unintended co... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/915807?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:41:51 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/914829?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure August 28, 2008 (EurekAlert) - A class of oral drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes may make heart failure worse, according to an editorial published online in Heart Wednesday by two Wake Forest University School of Medicine faculty members. W... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/914829?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:36:49 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/912879?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Meanwhile, back in the AstraZeneca marketing department: Hey, Joe, I got an AWESOME idea! We've got a few hundred thousand extra bucks lying around, right? Let's get some trucks! I mean, we could drive 'em around and burn some diesel, and pull righ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/912879?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:21:50 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/912523?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure It seems Sanofi-Aventis's amiodarone analog drug, dronedarone (marketed as Multaq ), was granted a stay of execution by the FDA:Multaq appeared at one stage to have little future, after an early clinical trial showed excess mortality and the drug wa... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/912523?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:04:36 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/912357?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure If you re in a nursing home, federal law says you can only be evicted for a few reasons if you can t pay the bill, if you re well enough to go home, if you re endangering the safety of others, that sort of thing.But some state officials s... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/912357?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:39:46 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/911609?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Apple's website features AstraZeneca's Heart FXPod, a 53-foot-long mobile van outfitted with five virtual reality stations that offer a complex multimedia demonstration involving custom devices and interactive feedback. So far, the van has logged ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/911609?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:04 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/heart-disease/910344?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure I am very glad to see all the thoughtful comments on the last Tales From the Emergency Room post. I was inspired by your comments to post this follow-up, because I think there is a critical misunderstanding about the abilities of medicine to diagno... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/heart-disease/910344?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/908501?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Filed under: Fun & activities, Life & style, In the news, That's entertainmentYou may not recognize the name Larry Harmon. But if you were a kid twenty to thirty years ago and you spent some time in front of the television you probably saw him and di... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/908501?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:31:39 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sleepdoctor/905746?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Earlier this week preliminary data from the Sleep Heart Health Study was presented. It appears that in patients without significant preexisting cardiovascular disease, moderate to severe osa (apnea-hypopnea index of greater than 30 with events requir... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sleepdoctor/905746?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:20:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/905553?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure A new study out of the Boston Children's Hospital found that 40 percent of children between the ages of eight-months to two years are deficient in vitamin D. In a report published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study's a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/905553?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:07:35 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/905541?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure June 9, 2008 (EurekAlert) - Patients with diabetes who take the medication rosiglitazone may be less likely to develop the eye disease proliferative diabetic retinopathy or to experience reductions in visual acuity (sharpness), according to a report ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/905541?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:57:46 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/904298?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure In New York City, Two Versions of End-of-Life Care Most elderly patients in their last two years of life have more intensive treatment, more tests, more days of hospitalization and more out-of-pocket costs at private teaching hospitals like ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/904298?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Fri, 30 May 2008 17:45:12 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/903990?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Filed under: Life & style, Media, That's entertainmentIf you've got a kid who is as into trains as my Jared is, then you undoubtedly listen to a fair bit of Utah Phillips' music. His version of the Wabash Cannonball and Daddy, What's a Train are two ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/903990?rsstype=tag&tag=congestive-heart-failure Wed, 28 May 2008 16:32:13 -0400