McKenzie-Willamette hires cardiac surgeon.
Byline: YOUR HEALTH By Lottie Poe Duey For The Register-Guard At the McKenzie-Willamette Heart Center, which opened in December 2006, physicians and hospital staff perform multiple procedures involving all aspects of cardiology: diagnosis, treatment, interventions and surgery. In a recent patient satisfaction survey, the Heart...

Blimey, it's the bloomin' onions.
Speaking of obesity, it seems Australia has edged America as "heavyweight champion" of the world, with an estimated 26% of its adult citizens rated as obese, versus the U.S. rate of 25%. It's "a title we don't really want," said Dr. Simon Stewart, head of preventative cardiology at Melbourne's...

Benefit Data of Cardiac Devices in Heart Failure Patients Presented at ESC Congress.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-9 September 2008-Benefit Data of Cardiac Devices in Heart Failure Patients Presented at ESC Congress(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com New analyses presented during the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) on the effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in patients with mild heart...

Benefit Data of Cardiac Devices in Heart Failure Patients Presented at ESC Congress.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-9 September 2008-Benefit Data of Cardiac Devices in Heart Failure Patients Presented at ESC Congress(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com New analyses presented during the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) on the effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in patients with...

Cardiologist David Kawanishi Leverages HeartSmartIMTplus.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-1 August 2008-Cardiologist David Kawanishi Leverages HeartSmartIMTplus(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Mission Internal Medical Group's Dr. David Kawanishi is happy about his recent decision to include HeartSmartIMTplus in his cardiology practice. According to a release, he finds the new diagnostic method aids...

Heart groups acknowledge apnea-CVD link.
In the face of rising rates of obesity, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure, physicians need to be mindful of the mounting evidence for a link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease when evaluating patients, according to a joint American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Foundation scientific...

Theragenics Finalizes Purchase of NeedleTech Products.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 August 2008-Theragenics Finalizes Purchase of NeedleTech Products(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Theragenics, a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, announced that it completed the acquisition of NeedleTech Products, on July 28. The agreement to acquire...

Riverside Partners adds to portfolio of companies.
Boston, MA-based private-equity firm Riverside Partners has purchased Dome Imaging--the medical display division of Planar Systems--and has integrated the business into its existing portfolio company, NDS Surgical Imaging in San Jose, CA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dome, with operations in the United States, Europe...

Recent think tank meeting unites Japanese and US regulatory experts.
During some of the hottest and most humid days of summer, approximately 120 representatives from the United States and Japan kept cool indoors during a recent think-tank meeting. Held July 22-23, this event sizzled--even inside the air-conditioned forum--as regulators, academic leaders and industry stakeholders held serious discussions about the...

Tool helps prompt antihypertensive prescribing.
TORONTO -- Computerized reminders that were flashed to primary care physicians as they checked and recorded their patients' blood pressures led to a small but significant improvement in the rate of prescribing drugs that followed hypertension-management guidelines. But in this study, which randomized 14 general medicine clinics...