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When German President Horst Köhler awards the German Future Prize for 2008 on 3 December in Berlin, researchers and research projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will once again be the focus of attention. Professor Axel Haverich, a heart surgeon and Leibniz prizewinner from Hannover Medical School (MHH), and his two colleagues Dr.

A pilot study of Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), where heart attack patients are fast-tracked into the cardiac catheter lab for treatment, has been extremely successful at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, England.

The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced that poor blood pressure control during cardiac surgery is associated with a higher risk of 30-day death, stroke, myocardial infarction and renal dysfunction, compared to patients with tight blood pressure control, according to a post-hoc analysis of the ECLIPSE trial.

Corgenix Medical Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CONX) announces that new CHARISMA trial findings published in Circulation confirm that elevated urinary levels of the biomarker 11-dehydro thromboxane B2 (11dhTxB2) indicate an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiac death.

Terumo Heart, Inc. announced that five patients have received the DuraHeart(TM) Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS), marking an important early milestone in the U.S. Pivotal Trial. A team led by Dr. Francis Pagani performed the five implants at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center in Ann Arbor with three of the surgeries performed off-pump. “We congratulate Dr.

The typical Western diet - fried foods, salty snacks and meat - accounts for about 30 percent of heart attack risk across the world, according to a study of dietary patterns in 52 countries reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Heart failure patients are at higher risk for fractures, including debilitating hip fractures, than other heart patients and should be screened and treated for osteoporosis, Canadian researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. One year after an emergency room visit, 4.

A recent analysis published by THE SAGE GROUP concluded that 2.8 million people in Western Europe have critical limb ischemia (CLI). Reflecting the aging population, this number is projected to grow to 3.4 million by 2020.

UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries — such as angioplasty and stenting — found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.

Daxor Corporation (AMEX: DXR), a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, announced the publication of a comparison study of the blood volume and anemia characteristics in heart failure patients in the October 2008 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology.