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Houston study shows stem-cell's potential for heart treatment - Houston Chronicle

chron.com — “Houston researchers are reporting that adult stem cells have a modest benefit in younger patients with heart failure, the first large-scale evidence that the controversial yet promising new therapy can be developed to help millions of people with the disease. In a study presented at a cardiology conference Saturday, Texas Heart Institute doctors presented results of a clinical trial showing that cells derived from patients' own bone marrow produce a small but significant increase in the heart's View full resource at chron.com

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Houston study shows stem-cell's potential for heart treatment - Houston Chronicle

chron.com — “Houston researchers are reporting that adult stem cells have a modest benefit in younger patients with heart failure, the first large-scale evidence that the controversial yet promising new therapy can be developed to help millions of people with the disease. In a study presented at a cardiology conference Saturday, Texas Heart Institute doctors presented results of a clinical trial showing that cells derived from patients' own bone marrow produce a small but significant increase in the heart's View full resource at chron.com

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Enrollment begins in Boston Scientific's vagal nerve stimulation trial for heart failure

news-medical.net — “Boston Scientific Corporation has enrolled the first patients in its NECTAR-HF (NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure) clinical trial. NECTAR-HF is a prospective, randomized, international clinical feasibility study designed to assess preliminary safety and efficacy of chronic vagal nerve stimulation in heart failure patients.View full resource at news-medical.net

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Press Release - Monitoring Heart Failure From Home - Northwestern Memorial Hospital - Chicago

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Clinical trial examines remote monitoring of heart failure progression. Northwestern 1 of 2 Illinois sites enrolling http://t.co/yVRtPAh1

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Patients With COPD Benefit From Azithromycin - QualityPoint Technologies

qualitypointtech.net — “A common antibiotic can help reduce the severe wheezing and other acute symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a large, multicenter clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and conducted at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The study appears in the August 25 New England Journal of Medicine. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the third leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing strokes in 2008 - heart disView full resource at qualitypointtech.net

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Can Omecamtiv Mecarbil Help Heart Failure Patients? Too Early To Tell - QualityPoint Technologies

qualitypointtech.net — “An article published in the Lancet revealed results of two clinical trials of omecamtiv mecarbil, a drug that according to researchers could one-day benefit heart failure patients by assisting the heart to contract more easily. Omecamtiv mecarbil, developed in San Francisco, activates a protein that increases the contraction of the heart muscle. First clinical trials indicate that it could help patients with stable systolic heart failure. Heart failure is defined as the inability of the heart toView full resource at qualitypointtech.net

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Can Omecamtiv Mecarbil Help Heart Failure Patients? Too Early To Tell

medicalnewstoday.com — “An article published in the Lancet revealed results of two clinical trials of omecamtiv mecarbil, a drug that according to researchers could one-day benefit heart failure patients by assistView full resource at medicalnewstoday.com

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Can Omecamtiv Mecarbil Help Heart Failure Patients? Too Early To Tell http://mnt.to/3Z69 #cardiovascular

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Outcomes vary in global heart failure trials by geographic region

medicalxpress.com — “A comparison of several international clinical trials of beta-blocker drugs has shown there are notable differences in how well the drugs prevent deaths in heart failure patients, based on where the patients were treated. In this study, U.S. patients apparently had a lower survival rate with beta-blocker ...View full resource at medicalxpress.com

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ASCEND-HF: No Harm or Benefit with Nesiritide - Larry Husten - Cardiobrief - Forbes

blogs.forbes.com — “With the publication of the final results of the ASCEND-HF (Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure Trial) in the New England Journal of Medicine, the once intense controversy over the use-- or misuse-- of the drug nesiritide in patients with acute decompensated heart failure has [...]View full resource at blogs.forbes.com

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ASCEND-HF: No Harm or Benefit with Nesiritide: With the publication of the final results of the ASCEND-... http://onforb.es/p9usJq #drug

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Medical News: HFC: Benefit for Some HF Patients in Telemonitoring - in Meeting Coverage, HFC from MedPage Today

medpagetoday.com — “GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Remote monitoring doesn't boost heart failure clinical outcomes for patients overall but may help in newly diagnosed or unstable cases, researchers found in two clinical trials.View full resource at medpagetoday.com

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HFC: Benefit for Some HF Patients in Telemonitoring (CME/CE): (MedPage Today) -- GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Remote m... http://bit.ly/mcKoJy

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Medical News: HFC: Benefit for Some HF Patients in Telemonitoring - in Meeting Coverage, HFC from MedPage Today

medpagetoday.com — “GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Remote monitoring doesn't boost heart failure clinical outcomes for patients overall but may help in newly diagnosed or unstable cases, researchers found in two clinical trials.View full resource at medpagetoday.com

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Nile Therapeutics Announces Dosing Of First Patient In Phase I Study Of Cenderitide

medicalnewstoday.com — “Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for heart failure patients, announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial iView full resource at medicalnewstoday.com

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Nile Therapeutics Announces Dosing Of First Patient In Phase I Study Of Cenderitide http://mnt.to/3VmR #heart #heartdisease

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MedWire News - Cardiology - HF clinical trials --'continue to discriminate against older patients--™

medwire-news.md — “MedWire News Older patients continue to be excluded from heart failure clinical trials, often without good justification, the PREDICT study has found. MedWire NewsView full resource at medwire-news.md

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HF clinical trials ‘continue to discriminate against older patients’ http://bit.ly/fUQA4r #heartfailure

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BG Medicine and Boston Scientific Make A Deal For Galectin-3 Heart-Failure Test | IVD Technology

ivdtechnology.com — “BG Medicine Inc. signed a deal for its galectin-3 heart-failure test with Boston Scientific Corp., as reported by MassDevice. Boston Scientific is studying whether BG Medicine's test can identify patients in need of cardiac-resynchronization therapy using patient data from Boston Scientific's Madit-CRT clinical trial.View full resource at ivdtechnology.com

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BG Medicine and Boston Scientific Make A Deal For Galectin-3 Heart-Failure Test http://tinyurl.com/3tv4wdc

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Symposier - Wireless Monitor Reduces Heart Failure Hospitalizations

symposier.com — “Uploaded and shared in Youtube by: osumedicalcenter --" http://bit.ly/eSojuD With millions of people hospitalized each year due to heart failure, results from a pivotal clinical trial show that an implantable pulmonary artery pressure device in patients with moderate heart failure results in significant reductions in hospitalizations and re-admissions for those patients. The study, published Feb. 10 in the Lancet, represents the first major breakthrough in heart failure management in the past deView full resource at symposier.com

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Wireless Monitor Reduces Heart Failure Hospitalizations, first major breakthrough in HF management in the past decade. http://bit.ly/hnushE

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