Shock Device Doesn&#39;t Cut Deaths After Heart Attack
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NEW YORK  - By delivering a small shock that gets the heart beating regularly again, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or ICDs can save the lives of patients with heart conditions.
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Treating heart attack victims with radio waves helps reduce the likelihood that implantable defibrillators will need to jolt ailing hearts into beating properly, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Federal health advisers recommended Thursday that the government not approve a novel implantable device designed to detect worsening heart failure.
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NEW YORK  - Even with new, more objective  criteria, women are still less likely than men to have their  heart condition accurately diagnosed as a heart attack,  researchers report.
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that &quot;normal&quot; blood pressure might not be low enough. By reducing their pressure well below the levels suggested by national guidelines
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A tiny tent-like device implanted into the heart appears to block strokes caused by a common irregular heartbeat, sealing off a spot where dangerous blood clots form, German and U.S. researchers reported Wednesday...
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A nationwide push to put portable defibrillators in every school, a response to several high-profile student deaths, may not be worth the cost, a new study concludes.
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A blood pressure drug is ineffective in reducing cardiovascular deaths, research suggests.
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An experimental Procter & Gamble  antiarrhythmia drug significantly reduced the number of  episodes of dangerous heart rates in patients with implanted  defibrillators, and the need for uncomfortable shocks from the  devices in a late-stage clinical trial.
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NEW YORK  - People with chronic health conditions have slimmer chances of surviving a cardiac arrest, according to new study findings.
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Many women, and seniors, do not enter a rehab program after having a heart attack. Yet, participation in cardiac rehabilitation markedly lowers the risk of dying or having a second heart attack during the next three years, results of a recent study show
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Implantable stimulators can blunt pain with electrical impulses, but they may come with negative side effects.
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After a heart attack, treatment with angioplasty or bypass surgery during the initial hospital stay appears to improve survival compared with a more delayed, conservative approach, new research shows.
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick
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A diagnostic test intended to identify patients who should receive heart defibrillators did not produce conclusive data, according to initial results from a clinical trial.
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NEW YORK  - In the month following the  September 11th, 2001 attacks, there was a spate of heart rhythm  disturbances in cardiac patients -- even those living far from  the disaster sites.
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that &quot;normal&quot; blood pressure may not be low enough. By reducing their pressure well below the levels suggested by national guidelines, patients had