Suburban's New NIH Heart Center Offers More Cardiac Care Options
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A partnership intended to bring the advances of cardiac research quickly to patients' bedsides was celebrated yesterday with the official opening of the NIH Heart Center at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.
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Treating heart-attack patients without losing any time and with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines can save many lives, shows new research.
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The federal government unveiled new cardiac care information last month on a Web site that tracks hospital performance, earning kudos from hospital administrators and health-care researchers but demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to compare hospital care.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has foiled Tufts-New England Medical Center's plan to build a $300 million suburban hospital with New England Baptist Hospital . Instead, New England Baptist and Beth Israel Deaconess will work together on suburban expansion.
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When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Chevy Chase announced in 2002 that it would bring some of the world's top scientists to a sleek new research center in Loudoun County, it was hailed as an economic boon, perhaps planting the seed for a new biomedical corridor.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Scientists measure energy levels inside living heart cells, which could ultimately aid heart attack recovery.
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The CardioWest artificial heart developed at University Medical Center is &quot;a triumph of medical technology&quot; that saves the lives of patients dying from heart disease, a leading medical journal is reporting today.
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There looks to be more room for healthy growth.
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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.
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and  Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday proposed expanding coverage  for costly devices to restore normal heart rhythms to a much  broader population of heart patients.
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By Karen Garloch, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 12--Expanding its ever-growing reach into Carolinas counties outside Mecklenburg, Carolinas HealthCare System announced today it plans to build a new $100 million hospital in Lincolnton.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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Medicare has proposed expanding coverage for expensive cardiac defibrillators surgically implanted in patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest.
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If time spent transporting a suspected heart attack victim to a hospital could be used to work out a diagnosis and treatment plan, doctors say, more lives could be saved &#151; and now that will be possible in central Arkansas.
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St. Francis Heart Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was built to be digital from the ground up. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee. While many existing hospitals across the country are attempting to transform from paper-burdened
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Scientists discover what could be cardiac master cells capable of becoming different tissues in the heart.