Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
A new study found that black Americans implanted with drug-coated stents have more than double the risk of developing life-threatening blood clots than Americans from other races who have also had drug-coated stents implanted to prop open narrowing arteries. You can read about the study behind these findings ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
People with hypertension (high blood pressure) who binge drink are much more likely to die than other individuals, says a study published in the medical journal Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The definition of hypertension in this study was blood pressure of at least 168 /100 millimeters of ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Elderly and middle-aged women who eat a small amount of chocolate every week have a reduced risk of developing heart failure, Swedish researchers reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. The study, which lasted nine years, involved 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women - it examined the ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The American Heart Association announces the call for entries for the 2010 Howard L. Lewis Achievement Award, the association's highest honor for health and science reporting. The award was established in 2000, to recognize and honor the career achievements of science, health and medical journalists who have documented the considerable ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
For the second year in a row, Loyola University Hospital has won a Get with the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The award is given to hospitals that achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all stroke performance guidelines and 75 ...
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