Category: Heart Failure

FDA approves first drug to limit frequent waking to urinate

The treatment is a nasal spray intended for adults who wake up at least twice a night to urinate. The Food and Drug Administration said the spray, called Noctiva, is not approved to treat all causes of frequent nighttime urination, so doctors must determine the cause and best treatment for each person.

Tributes to Black Country DJ who has died aged 44

… in Roberts Green Road, Gornal, where he retired from his job as a branch manager for Travis Perkins due to his ill health. His sister Sonia said: “He was well known around the Black Country for being a great DJ, but more importantly to us, he was a …

ACA replacement a growing concern

As Republicans try to unite around a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, one of the most popular parts of the law will be among the most difficult to replace: the guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.

Pre-existing conditions complicate health care replacement

As Republicans try to unite around a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, one of the most popular parts of the law will be among the most difficult to replace: the guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. The challenge of providing insurance for Americans who have no other alternative has some congressional Republicans considering whether to ask the states to reboot high-risk pools, an option with a rocky history.

Pre-existing conditions complicate health care replacement

As Republicans try to unite around a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, one of the most popular parts of the law will be among the most difficult to replace: the guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. The challenge of providing insurance for Americans who have no other alternative has some congressional Republicans considering whether to ask the states to reboot high-risk pools, an option with a rocky history.

Atrial fibrillation can lead to stroke

… most common in people 65 years and older. What can seem like a little flutter in the chest can be a sign of a serious health condition that can lead to stroke, and one local physician is hoping to encourage the elderly to be proactive. “If you have …

Dilated cardiomyopathy.

Dilated cardiomyopathy is defined by the presence of left ventricular dilatation and contractile dysfunction. Genetic mutations involving genes that encode cytoskeletal, sarcomere, and nuclear envelope proteins, among others, account for up to 35% of cases.

Why Immortality Is Overrated

… to die from chronic illnesses and complications related to aging are much more likely to make ample use of their health insurance. But in my view, the crux of the problem is the wide mismatch between what people say they want (to die at home) and …

Psoriasis Treatment Market Precise Industry Analysis and Growth…

The global market for psoriasis treatment demonstrates a highly competitive landscape, especially due to the rising investments in the field of psoriasis treatment connected to research and development as stated in the latest report from Transparency Market Research. This study has been recently added to the wide portfolio of Market Research Hub’s research studies.

Marshall University Research Receives Coal Country Grant

U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins announced that Marshall University Research Corporation has received a grant of more than $1.3 million from the Appalachian Regional Commission to train community health workers in coal counties. The grant of $1,325,655 aims to improve public health and access to care in rural coal communities.

Larry ‘Duane’ McBrayer

… his lifelong church family at Bethel Baptist Church in Bremen, Georgia, for many years. Until only recently when his health became an issue, Duane continued to travel to annual convention singings across the South, where he practiced the historic …

This might be how stress, heart attacks are linked

Scientists have long known that stress can influence your heart health, but exactly how this relationship takes place has been something of a mystery — until now. Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday.

Sign up for University of Bath wellbeing study to help you improve their diet and fitness

The Department of Health study, led by researchers at the University of Bath, aims to help people improve their fitness and diets. The university said the study “seeks to help people understand more about their health and support them to make healthy changes Participants will have access to a website “full of information and resources to help people gain the confidence and motivation to make healthy changes to their lives”.

This might be how stress and heart attacks are linked

Scientists have long known that stress can influence your heart health, but exactly how this relationship takes place has been something of a mystery – until now. Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday.

1st Mexican-American to rise to Catholic bishop in US dies

Archbishop Patricio Fernandez Flores, former archbishop of the San Antonio Roman Catholic archdiocese and the first Mexican-American to rise to bishop in the U.S. Catholic church, has died at the age of 87. In a lengthy statement, the San Antonio archdiocese said Flores died Monday of pneumonia and congestive heart failure at a San Antonio assisted living center for retired priests. Flores was born in the small Texas Coastal Plains farming town of Ganado.

Judge Bright looks back

… had mailed to each of us about two weeks before he died: I want to share with you a recent development regarding my health. My doctors have concluded that I have a condition known as aortic valve stenosis which leads to congestive heart failure. For …

Heart Failure: What You Need to Know

Heart failure, sometimes known as congestive heart failure, occurs when the heart muscle does not pump blood as well as it should, which could result in electrical instability in the ventricles and cause sudden death. Properly assessing patients with diagnostic tools such as EKG, echocardiogram, nuclear stress test, blood work and heart rate monitoring are the best practices to identify heart failure-related risk factors, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.

Lemmy Kilmister’s Death: One Year Later

… months to live. Unfortunately, the end came far, far more quickly. The Los Angeles county Department of Public Health’s death certificate for Kilmister later confirmed that he also suffered from cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure. His …