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The American Vascular Association (AVA) reported recently that more than 10 million of the nation's vascular disease sufferers have not been diagnosed, signaling a need for increased public education on the issue. The results of the AVAs nationwide screening were announced at the 30th annual Veith Symposium International Vascular Surgery Conference in New York.
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An FDA advisory panel gave its unanimous backing to the second in what is likely to be a lengthening line of premarket approval (PMAs) applications for drug-eluting stents (DES). The nod went to the Taxus paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent from Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts).
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Bio-Imaging Technologies (Newtown, Pennsylvania) has acquired the intellectual property of privately held CapMed (Wilmington, Delaware), including the Personal Health Record (PHR) software and the patent-pending Personal HealthKey technology. Financial terms of the transaction were undisclosed.
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Describing the effort as a revolution in health and care information, the UK government last month announced a program intended to result in every National Health Service (NHS) patient in England having an electronic care record by the end of this decade. British Telecom (BT) was awarded a 10-year contract to set up and run the national NHS Care Records Service.
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For a medical disorder affecting more than a quarter-million Americans each year, said vascular surgeon Thomas Wakefield, we researchers dont know much more today about what causes blood clots in veins than our predecessors did over 100 years ago.
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Advances in Cardiovascular Technology: Emerging Markets for the 21st Century, Vol. 2, the newest sourcebook from the publishers of Cardiovascular Device Update and The BBI Newsletter, is now available.
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Prevention of Cardiovascular Events with Aspirin and Vitamin in Type 2 Diabetics; Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of Type 2 Diabetics; Depression Care on Pain and Functional Outcomes Among Adults with Arthritis; Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Aspirin in Polycythemia Vera; Coronary Artery Calcium Score Plus Framingham Score for Risk Prediction; Intra-articular Hyaluronic Acid in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis
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The liability crisis in many states is an overwhelming threat to our nations emergency care system, says Angela Gardner, MD, an emergency physician and board member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in Irving, TX.
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Sometimes, you have to look beyond the walls of your ED for solutions to your overcrowding problems, says Sandy Vecellio, RN, BSN, clinical manager of the ED at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, GA. And when things really get rough, she advises, send out an SOS.
