50,000 Unnecessary Heart Procedures
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It turns out the common practice of using stents to open the heart may not be right for some patients.
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As former President Bill Clinton checked out of the hospital where he had bypass surgery, people across the nation were rushing to hospitals, seeking to have their own hearts checked out.    Many places around the country are seeing cases of "Clinton syndrome" - worried, middle-aged men wanting tests for chest pain and other possible heart disease symptoms...
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.
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My office telephone has been ringing with patients who have heard about former President Bill Clinton&#39;s surgery this month and wonder if they might need cardiac bypass themselves.
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The UK spends more per person on treating heart disease than any other country in Europe, figures show.
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Former president Bill Clinton has become one of 64 million Americans with diagnosed heart disease. As many as 4 million more have a &quot;silent&quot; illness with no symptoms to betray their risk, doctors say.
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A common operation in which plaque is scraped out of an artery in the neck to prevent strokes is providing a dubious benefit to patients in as many as half of all surgeries, new Canadian research suggests.
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Britain said Wednesday that a series of procedural changes at hospitals could boost the rate of organ donation by 50 percent within five years.
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Foetal medicine pioneer attacks unnecessary and expensive treatments.
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The most exhaustive studies yet published on drug-coated stents show that the widely used heart devices are no better at preventing heart attacks and death than the older, cheaper devices they replaced, and in some cases may be slightly worse.
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Five hundred and ninety-six patients, from seven countries (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom) were included in this retrospective analysis* of patients who originally ...
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for as many as 4,000 people.
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About 500,000 Medicare beneficiaries can now receive coverage for expensive defibrillators &#151; if they agree to release details about their cases to a database shared by hospitals, Medicare officials said.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy   are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790   billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,   according to a government study released on Friday.
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In what could be the most expensive decision in Medicare's history, officials say the government has decided to expand coverage of implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts.
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Former President Bill Clinton&#39;s impending coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the most common heart operation performed in the United States, with more than half a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year.
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The nationâs two leading heart groups issued new guidelines Thursday about what should be done for patients with heart disease before they undergo surgery on other parts of the body.