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Heart Disease News
Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Live Longer - However Pacing Is Crucial Adverse effects of right ventricular pacing on the survival of ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) patients are long term, researchers from the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital explained, however, CRT (cardiac resynchronization therapy) lessens the impact.	28 Aug 2011
Underused Low Cost Drugs For Cardiovascular Disease Could Considerably Reduce Global Incidence Global cardiovascular disease incidence could be considerably reduced in a few years if low-cost medications were used more, researchers explained in the medical journal The Lancet and presented at The European Society of Cardiology Congress in Paris, France.	28 Aug 2011
Eliquis Beats Warfarin In Phase 3 Trial For Atrial Fibrillation Patients A Phase III clinical trial, known as ARISTOTLE, found Eliquis (apixaban) to be better than Warfarin in reducing stroke or systemic embolism risk in patients with atrial fibrillation - there was also considerably less bleeding among the Eliquis patients.	28 Aug 2011
Genetics Key Factor In Coronary Heart Disease, Not Lifestyle The fact that hereditary factors play a role in coronary heart disease has long been known, but whether the increased risk is genetic or due to an unhealthy family environment has not been established so far.	28 Aug 2011
Lower Income Individuals Have 50% Higher Risk Of Heart Disease According to a recent UC Davis study published online in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, people with lower socioeconomic status are at greater risk of developing heart disease compared to those who are wealthier or better educated.	28 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Searching For Correlations In Electronic Patient Records A new study demonstrates how text mining of electronic health records can be used to create medical term profiles of patients, which can be used both to identify co-occurrence of diseases and to cluster patients into groups with highly similar clinical features.	28 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
School-Based Mental Health Screening For Teens Results In Connection To Care A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care.	28 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News

Physical Activity Throughout Life Yields Measurable Benefits As We Age The benefits of physical activity accumulate across a lifetime, according to a new study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Researchers in England and Australia examined the associations of leisure time physical activity across adulthood with physical performance and strength in midlife in a group of British men and women followed since birth in March 1946.

28 Aug 2011

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