Angioplasty

Door-to-Balloon Time Shorter With EMT Diagnosis: Heart Month -- Day 24

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Emergency Medical Technicians, Healthy Living Health News, Angioplasty, National Heart Alert Program, Yale Heart Study, Suzanne O'Malley, National Institute of Health, Yale University, Heart Disease, Heart Attacks, Cardiac-Catheterization, Personal Health, Heart Month, American Heart Month, Healthy Living News
Suzanne O'Malley

Hospitals and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) have been implementing strategies to decrease door-to-balloon (D2B) time. Not familiar with D2B? It's the term for the time it takes to get a heart attack victim to the hospital for a cardiac angioplasty procedure (heart cath).

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Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life

Rabbi Avi Weiss | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Heart Surgery, Giving Thanks, Angioplasty, Finitude, Heart Attack, Judaism, Hoda'ah, Soviet Jewry Movement, Soviet Jewry, Judaism and Thanksgiving, Death & Dying, Offering Thanks, Religion News
Rabbi Avi Weiss

All at once I felt what seemed like a Mack truck on my chest. The pain was excruciating. I couldn't breathe. I could hardly move. I couldn't comprehend what was happening. Until then I had felt invincible.

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An Invitation for Bill Clinton to Attend the McDougall Program

John McDougall, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Bill Clinton, Heart, Program, Brain Damage, Stents, Bypass-Surgery, Hillary Clinton, Doctors, Heart Disease, Business, Diet, Mcdougall, Health, Healthy Living News
John McDougall, M.D.

Dear WIliam Clinton: With all their good intentions, and the use of sophisticated, expensive technologies, your doctors are allowing your heart disease to progress as if it were a runaway train destined for a wreck.

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Help Us Keep Hearts Healthy This Valentine's Day

Andrew Van Tosh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Valentine's Day, Federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare, Physician Practice Expense Information, Cardiology, New York News
Andrew Van Tosh

An arbitrary rule put into effect by the federal Center for Medicare threatens the progress we have made on heart health by slashing reimbursement for cardiology office visits and imaging by as much as 35%.

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Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Limb Regeneration, Mammography, Epigenetics, Synthetic Genomics, Childhood Obesity, Stents, Globalization, Slidehuge, Dr. Judah Folkman, Obesity, Wellness, Integrative Medicine, Angiogenesis, Medical News, Dna, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Health, Dr. Dean Ornish, Genetics, Diabetes, Telomeres, Telomerase, Craig Venter, Healthy Living News
Dr. Dean Ornish

In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I first began writing about the latest high-tech breakthroughs in genomics, stem cell research, angiogenesis, and so on.

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How To Save Billions in Health Costs Starting Now

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Elliott S. Fisher, Gerry O'Connor, Health Care Costs, Katie Couric, Health Care, CBS News, Vertebroplasty, Health Care Reform, Cbs, Dartmouth, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

President Obama has stressed the importance of "bending the cost curve." The fastest way to do this is shockingly simple: carefully explain to patients the known risks and benefits of procedures.

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Exercise Beats Angioplasty For Some Heart Patients

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Heart Conditions, Heart, Heart Disease, Exercise, Health, Healthy Living News

BARCELONA, Spain — Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say. Studies have shown heart patients...

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