Heart Failure

This heart failure channel offers news and new technology to treat heart failure. This includes for new innovations to treat congestive heart failure (CHF). The channel includes news on HFpEF and HFrEF. Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump as much blood as the body requires. This can lead to enlargement of the heart because the muscle works harder to supply blood, but the pumping is ineffective. This may be due to defects in the myocardium, such as an infarct, or due to structural issues such as severe valve regurgitation. The disease is divided into four New York Heart Association (NYHA) classes. Stage IV heart failure is when the heart is completely failing and requires a heart transplant  or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

News | Artificial Heart

March 24, 2016 — A new documentary produced by Retro Report for The New York Times looks at the history and modern use ...

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The need for improved efficiency in healthcare and the new requirements of U.S. healthcare reform have rapidly made the ...

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News | Blood Testing

March 22, 2016 — Critical Diagnostics announced that it entered into a license agreement for the exclusive worldwide ...

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DAIC readers chose the following stories as the most popular content in 2015, based on website analytics. The list is ...

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News | Artificial Heart

March 18, 2016 — A surgical team at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas successfully performed a heart transplant ...

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News | Stem Cell Therapies

March 1, 2016 — Cardiac stem cells could be an effective treatment for a common but difficult-to-treat type of heart ...

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News | Heart Failure

March 1, 2016 — For the first time in the United States, a clinical trial is underway that’s evaluating a device ...

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News | Remote Monitoring

February 17, 2016 — Increasingly patients and providers are interested in using remote monitoring devices to help with ...

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News | Heart Failure

February 10, 2016 — In a finding that could lead to new drugs to treat heart failure, researchers have uncovered the ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

February 9, 2016 — Cigna has entered into an outcomes-based contract with the pharmaceutical company Novartis for the ...

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News | ACC

The following are the late-breaking clinical trial presentations presented at the 2016 American College of Cardiology ...

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News | Heart Failure

February 4, 2016 — Early diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea may reduce six-month readmissions for patients ...

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News | Heart Failure

February 4, 2016 — New research from scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) published in ...

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Technology | Population Health

January 28, 2016 — Boston Scientific Corp. and Accenture have developed a cloud-based, data-driven digital health ...

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January 15, 2016 — 2016 is starting off a whole lot better than last year for 14-year-old Oswaldo Jimenez of Salem, Ore ...

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