MALMO, Sweden, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Some emergency responders in Malmo, Sweden, object to what they say is a forced game of chance in deciding how to treat heart attack patients.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, has died of heart failure in Ann Arbor, Mich., at age 90.
BERLIN, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A German-led study suggests a new blood test better identifies heart failure patients presenting in hospital emergency departments than current tests.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A study found exercise is not too risky for some heart failure patients, U.S. researchers said.
MINNEAPOLIS, Miss., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Sudden cardiac death after a heart attack dropped in the past 30 years, but there's higher risk in the first month after a heart attack, U.S. researchers said.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Heart failure is the leading cause of death among patients on dialysis for failing kidneys, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
ATLANTA, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Post heart attack hospital-based smoking cessation programs, along with referrals to cardiac rehabilitation, appear to be effective, U.S. researchers said.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Heart patients are particularly vulnerable to depression and should be screened, and if necessary treated, to improve their recovery, U.S. researchers said.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Inhaled anti-cholinergic agents by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is linked to increased risk of heart attack, U.S. researchers said.
FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A daily capsule of omega-3 fish body oil can reduce mortality and admission to the hospital in patients with heart failure, Italian researchers said.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A class of oral drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of heart failure, two Wake Forest University School of Medicine faculty members said.
DENVER, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. cardiologists have discovered nearly 1-in-5 patients experiences chest pain one year after suffering a heart attack.
NEW YORK, June 20 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are setting up clinical trials for therapeutic gene injections that could take the place of a heart transplant.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 12 (UPI) -- Vitamin D, known to help prevent cancer and osteoporosis, may help protect the heart as well, University of Michigan pharmacologists said.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (UPI) -- Nearly half of patients with a history of heart disease have poor knowledge about the symptoms of a heart attack, U.S. researchers said.
