McKenzie ER is a key community asset.
Byline: Lottie Poe Duey For The Register-Guard McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center's Emergency Department is staffed 24/7 by physicians and registered nurses specially trained and certified in emergency medicine. Annually, the department cares for more than 36,000 patients, approximately 40 percent of Lane County's emergency visits. ...

Clinical implications of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Depression--both major depressive disorder (MDD) and depressive symptoms--increases mortality in patients following myocardial infarction (MI) and also is a predictor of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population free of any evidence of medical illness (1-4) Furthermore, depression is a painful and persistent condition, and if left untreated...

Cancer survivors need heart disease screening.
NEW YORK -- Heart disease is the leading cause of noncancer mortality in patients who survive an initial bout with Hodgkin's disease, an example of the importance of monitoring for heart disease in cancer survivors. The relative risk for cardiovascular disease is about two-to sevenfold higher in...

ATHERSYS/ANGIOTECH TO EVALUATE SAFETY OF MULTISTEM IN AMI.
Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHX and Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANPI (NASDAQ:TSX: ANP ANP>), have announced that Athersys has received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I clinical trial evaluating the safety of MultiStem(R) in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The companies believe...

Wockhardt Hospitals plans to foray into organ transplant.
KOLKATA: Wockhardt Hospitals is planning to make a major foray into the organ transplantation segment. The hospital chain is closely working with its partner, Harvard Medical International, to finalise the finer modalities and treatment protocol. Wockhardt plans to offer transplantation services for liver, kidney and heart. Wockhardt...

Unusual case of pulmonary valve atresia.
Abstract We report on a 12-year-old boy with a rare form of pulmonary valve atresia with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) and anomalous origin of the left pulmonary artery arising from the aortic arch. He also has an absent right pulmonary artery, the right lung being supplied...

Practicing where cancer and heart disease converge.
Cardiovascular disease and cancer are by far the two most common diseases in the developed world, so the extent to which they interrelate should come as no surprise. There is a remarkable overlap between cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD can preexist in a patient who develops...

A web based module for capturing acute coronary events in Indian hospitals.
Web-based secure communication systems have revolutionized data collection systems in medical research. Such systems provide opportunities for a study with exceptionally large sample sizes and have the potential to provide timely information about current trends in disease incidence, treatment, and outcomes. Globally, National Audit of Myocardial Infarction Project (MINAP)...

Study confirms cardiovascular risks in Hodgkin's survivors.
NEW YORK -- The relative risk for cardiovascular disease is about two- to sevenfold higher in Hodgkin's disease survivors compared with age- and gender-matched people with no cancer history, Dr. Ming Hui Chen said at a symposium on cardiovascular disease in cancer patients sponsored by the University of Texas...

Animal magnetism? Scientists use magnetism to target cells to animal arteries.
Research done on animals that involved using magnetically guided nanoparticles to drive healthy cells to targeted sites in blood vessels, may pave the way to new means of delivering treatments to human organs. The research was carried out at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the USA...