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A coordinated emergency response by healthcare teams to treat heart attack patients meant faster care that was associated with improved survival.

An experimental 3-dimensional printed model of the heart may help surgeons treat patients born with complicated heart disorders.

Children who receive a heart transplant as soon as a suitable donor is available are predicted to have better quality-adjusted survival - even if they have antibodies that may attack the new heart - than children who wait for a donor to which they do not have antibodies.

With administrators increasing staff training efforts for the Ebola virus at medical facilities throughout the United States, hospital radiology departments are emphasizing protocols for performing imaging procedures on isolated patients.

Some pharmacists feel tired after being on their feet all day and never getting a chance to sit down. To ease the annoyance of standing all day, one pharmacist in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, allegedly took matters into his own hands.

The first and only FDA-approved vaccine for active immunization to prevent invasive serogroup B meningococcal disease in patients aged 10 to 25 years is now available for order by retail pharmacies.

Patients with chronic cardiovascular disease who receive automated reminders for their prescription blood pressure and cholesterol medications are more likely to refill those drugs.

A Genzyme and Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. study suggests that mipomersen sodium injections reduce the odds of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, compared with the 2 years prior to therapy.

Perhaps you've heard of personalized or precision medicine, but what about P4 medicine?

A long-term study of Celgene Corporation's apremilast showed that the oral selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4 provides relief to adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis, as well as adult patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis who are candidates for phototherapy or systemic therapy.

A sports supplement company is voluntarily recalling its Mayhem dietary supplement capsules marketed to bodybuilders, after the FDA found 2 undeclared drugs in the product.

Roetzel & Andress LPA is pleased to announce that Ned Milenkovich, Partner and Practice Group Manager of Roetzel's Health, Drug & Pharmacy Law group, has been elected by the Illinois State Board of Pharmacy to serve as the Board's Vice-Chair, a position in which he has served on two prior occasions. Mr. Milenkovich will hold the position for a 1-year term.

Cocaine users complaining of chest pain may have abnormal blood flow in the heart's smallest blood vessels that may not be detected in regular testing, putting these patients at risk for heart complications or death, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

Adults whose mothers were overweight or obese before pregnancy have a dramatically elevated risk of dying from heart disease or stroke, according to a new study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

Men who have asymptomatic subclinical vascular disease are more likely to develop erectile dysfunction than men who don't have early stage vascular disease, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

High trans fat consumption is linked to worse memory among working-age men, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

Pregnant women with congenital heart disease had very low risks of arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) or other heart-related complications during labor and delivery, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

The American Academy of Neurology has selected 27 neurologists from around the world to attend the prestigious Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, January 15-18, 2015 in Jacksonville, FL.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus may see a reduction in blood sugar levels and body weight with empagliflozin treatment, according to data from Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.

The Save Mart family has launched this year's holiday drive, raising not only money for local food banks, but awareness about the unprecedented need for food security in our communities.

Meijer is spreading holiday cheer this season by once again donating a portion of customer purchases made in the toy department, up to $400,000, to children's gift-giving programs throughout the Midwest.

Compared with a one-size-fits-all approach, personalized dietary recommendations based on an individual's genetic makeup improve his or her eating habits.

A Merck study found patients who received a cholesterol-lowering combination of ezetimibe/simvastatin experienced fewer major cardiovascular events than those taking simvastatin alone.

While some pharmacies have their drugs stolen by robbers, a pharmacy in Tampa, Florida, had its drugs taken by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

More than 40% of calls placed to US poison control centers concerning energy drinks involve children under age 6, some of whom suffer serious cardiac and neurological symptoms.

The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo stems from a different strain of the virus than the outbreak wreaking havoc on West Africa, according to data from a French research organization.

Solgar Inc. is voluntarily recalling its ABC Dophilus Powder, after the US Centers for Disease Control found a potentially dangerous fungus present in the product, according to the FDA.