The Music Therapy Program at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas integrates music into stroke patients’ healing process to help patients relax after stroke. It is also a way to help meet health targets set by patients’ speech therapists.
CMS proposed on Aug. 9 an overhaul to accountable care organizations (ACOs), which would require ACOs to more quickly assume financial risk. But critics predict the changes will cause a mass exodus from the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Women are more likely to survive a heart attack if their emergency room physician is also a woman, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Swedish researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the endothelial dysfunction found in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D): increased expression of the arginase I protein in red blood cells.
Consuming an array of foods sounds reasonable in theory but may ultimately backfire, according to the authors of a scientific advisory statement published online Aug. 9 in Circulation.
George Hahn of Philadelphia had two echocardiograms conducted at the same hospital a year apart, using the same insurance—the only difference was one cost $3,000 more than the other. No doubt Hahn’s plight is similar to many other Americans—and hospitals are acting, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Continued use of statins was associated with a 25 percent reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients after carotid revascularization, according to a Canadian study with five years of follow-up. But only about two-thirds of patients were taking moderate to high doses of the drugs prior to their procedures.
A screening program for top teen soccer players in England identified heart disorders associated with sudden cardiac death in one out of every 266 individuals. But among the eight athletes who eventually died of sudden cardiac arrest, six of them had normal electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings.
Research in the Journal of the Journal of the American Heart Association suggests sleeping beyond the recommended seven to eight hours a night can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death.
Medtronic has launched the pilot study of its extravascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (EV ICD), which is designed to deliver defibrillation and antitachycardia pacing without transvenous leads.
