Feb 13 — Wear Red Canada Day — marks the sixth annual day devoted to raising awareness about women’s heart health…

How can one be environmentally responsible while maintaining sterility in the catheterization laboratory? This is the issue that Estelle Myny, a nurse at Jacques Cartier Hospital in Massy, France, sought to address at the European Days of the French Society of Cardiology. Reducing Waste Weight Angioplasty procedures use costly sterile medical devices with significant environmental

Cities are experimenting with new ways to meet the rapidly increasing demand for behavioral health crisis intervention, at a time when incidents of police shooting and killing people in mental health crisis have become painfully familiar…

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…

MedPage Today) — Science is like baseball. To score a run — to convincingly show that a drug or intervention is safe and effective — all the bases have to be rounded. In the case of science, the bases frequently include, in stepwise progression…

Credit: Jsme MILA from Pexels Research led by Claudia Cooper, Professor of Psychological Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, shows that a new therapy, NIDUS-Family, helps people with dementia and their family caregivers attain their personal goals. The NIDUS-family package of care and support focuses on practical changes people can make, with sessions designed

Native Americans die by suicide at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group, yet research into effective and culturally appropriate interventions is uncommon…

Treating patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) successfully, and earlier, can substantially offset their risk for long-term disability and the need for eventual surgical intervention. However, monitoring whether that treatment is successfully achieving its goals traditionally relies on endoscopy and all of its inherent limitations. The possibility that serum and fecal biomarkers of disease activity might

The FDA-cleared tool can help at-risk provider organizations reduce costs while improving patient outcomes through earlier lifestyle and treatment interventions, its inventors say…

Credit: Caroline Wild/George Washington University An arterial inflammatory disease called atherosclerosis is the United States’ leading cause of death, but about half of American adults over 45 have the condition and don’t know it, according to the National Institutes of Health. Characterized by plaque buildup inside the arteries, the vascular superhighways that push blood from