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Almost everyone feels occasional heart palpitations -- a change in the heart's rhythm. Palpitations range from what feels like a skip, flip or bump in the heart's rhythm to a sustained, racing heartbeat. The July issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter provides an overview of heart palpitations, including when emergency care is needed, what diagnostic tests are used and common triggers...

Stentys, which develops innovative stents to treat Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), announced today the enrollment of the final patient in the APPOSITION II clinical study-a randomized trial comparing the Stentys self-expanding stent with a conventional balloon-expandable stent in patients with AMI. The study results will be announced in September...

The funding level for the NIH approved by the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee represents a step in the right direction for the 81 million adults in the United States suffering from heart disease, stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease, America's No. 1 and most costly killer. Yet, more is needed to help all Americans live longer, healthier and productive lives...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee held a joint meeting primarily focused on reviewing the cardiovascular (CV) safety of rosiglitazone, as presented by the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline. Following this two day discussion, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is currently appraising the use of dronedarone (Multaq) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) - a disturbance of the heart's rhythm...

The University of Southern California (USC) has received a prestigious $56.8 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support and promote scientific discoveries and their application in real-life settings to health and health care. The CTSA will have an important focus on health issues of people living in densely populated urban environments...

The Washington Post: "Federal advisers delivered a mixed verdict Wednesday on the diabetes drug Avandia,with a significant number of experts voting to recommend that it be pulled from the market because of safety concerns but a majority urging to keep it available, perhaps with tough new restrictions and new warnings...

A novel study by Canadian physicians reported that the BioSTARTM biodegradable implant achieved comparable closure rates to the Amplatzer Septal OccluderTM (ASO) in children with atrial septal defect (ASD). The BioSTAR device displayed successful outcomes, while avoiding issues associated with implants containing substantial amounts of metal...

Restricting the amount of sodium chloride in food can lower the risk of cardiovascular morbidities. This is the conclusion that Dieter Klaus and colleagues come to in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[26]: 457-62)...

A newly funded study is set to determine whether waiting two minutes to clamp a newborn's umbilical cord after delivery could improve how well he or she recovers from corrective heart surgery. Most physicians typically clamp and cut the umbilical cord immediately following delivery...

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