Meda Purchases Product Portfolio from Roche.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-Meda Purchases Product Portfolio from Roche(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Meda has reached an agreement with the Swiss pharma company Roche to acquire four of their well-established pharmaceutical products. In a release, the companies noted that the acquired products have...

ORBUSNEICH ADDS SAPHHIRE NC CORONARY DILATATION CATHETER.
OrbusNeich has announced the addition of the Sapphire NC coronary dilatation catheter to its product line-up with the receipt of CE Mark approval. A non-compliant balloon, Sapphire NC has controlled growth of only 0.6% per atmosphere of pressure over the working pressure range for controlled dilatations. Furthermore,...

Heart of recovery; UMMC among nation's top 9 in study.
Byline: Elizabeth Cooney WORCESTER - Capping a turnaround in cardiac care from its surgery program's suspension almost three years ago, UMass Memorial Medical Center now ranks among only nine hospitals in the nation and two in Massachusetts with heart-attack survival rates above national levels. The...

A survey of rehabilitation services in Australia.
Abstract A survey, which achieved a 54% response rate, was completed to assess the availability and type of rehabilitation health services in Australia. 1044 surveys were sent out and 561 were returned. The details of a total of 346 rehabilitation services were obtained. There were more services...

CFVHS Leverages Premier Healthcare Alliance for Savings.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 August 2008-CFVHS Leverages Premier Healthcare Alliance for Savings(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Cape Fear Valley Health System (CFVHS), a member of the Premier healthcare alliance, has announced $5.34 million in supply chain cost reductions in just 14 months through focused work with Premier...

Seven years of experience in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension in Ege University Hospital: diagnostic approach of a single center/Ege Universitesi Hastanesi'nde pulmoner arteryel hipertansiyonlu hastalarla 7 yillik deneyimimiz: tek merkezin tanisal yaklasimi.
ABSTRACT Objective: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a term used to define a variety of progressive conditions that have in common, increased pulmonary vascular resistance leading to right heart failure and death. There has been considerable decrease in mortality and morbidity with the advances in PAH treatment...

Congenital heart disease prognosis still a mystery: 'no single hemodynamic or electrophysiologic risk factor appears to be sufficiently predictive.'.
TORONTO -- Experts are looking for the best way to assess the risk for sudden death in adults with congenital heart disease. Adults with congenital heart disease face a threat from sudden cardiac death that is far higher than that of the general population, with a mortality...

May positive U waves in V1-V3 leads predict left main coronary artery occlusion?/V1-V3 derivasyonlardaki pozitif U dalgalari sol ana koroner arter okluzyonunu ongorebilir mi?
A 41 years old male presented with unstable angina pectoris. Electrocardiography on admission revealed marked positive U waves in V1-V3 chest leads on electrocardiography (Fig. 1). Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Early coronary angiography revealed critical occlusion of the distal left main coronary artery (LMCA)...

Historic Hospital Begins Its New Life as MetroSouth Medical Center.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 August 2008-Historic Hospital Begins Its New Life as MetroSouth Medical Center(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As hundreds of employees, community members and officials cheered and clapped, a giant blue ribbon parted and the hospital in Blue Island, Ill. began its new life as...

Warfarin induced benign acral cutaneous lesions in two cardiac patients with decreased protein C and S activity/Protein C ve S aktiviteleri dusuk olan iki kalp hastasinda gorulen warfarin'e bagli selim uzuv derisi dokuntuleri.
We have presented two cardiac patients with protein C and S deficiency who were admitted with benign warfarin related cutaneous lesions. First case was a 60-year-old man. He was admitted with a transient ischemic attack. An anticoagulant treatment was begun with 2.5 mg warfarin once a day. After 3...