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January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

First Pediatric Heart Transplant Performed at Rady Children’s Hospital

A surgical team has successfully performed a heart transplant in an 11-year-old child at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, accomplishing the first ever procedure in a pediatric patient in the institution’s history. The hospital ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

Younger Adults with Isolated Systolic Hypertension are at Higher Risk for Cardiovascular, Coronary Heart Disease

A team of researchers led by Yuichiro Yano from the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago found that young and middle-aged adults ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

New Survey Tool Investigates Why Acute Heart Failure Patients “Bounce Back” to ERs

A new patient survey tool designed to assess factors that negatively impact acute heart failure patients’ self-care abilities after hospital discharge shows potential for improving patient outcomes and reducing the ... Read more

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

Penn Research Team Finds Twitter Postings Can Predict Coronary Heart Disease Rates

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that monitoring traffic on the social networking service Twitter, in addition to its proven capacity to break and cover emerging news stories, ... Read more

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

UT Southwestern Study Finds Prolonged Ventricular Assist Device Use Induces Heart Muscle Regeneration

A team of investigators at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas have found that prolonged use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) by heart failure patients may induce ... Read more