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After A Heart Attack: Can Home Health Help Prevent Hospital Return?
By American Heart Association NewsHeart attack survivors who receive home health care are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within the first month, according to preliminary research. The study, presented Friday at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care & Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions, used the Nationwide Readmission Database to identify more than 400,000...
CDC Advisory: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Advisory courtesy of the CDC On April 26, 2020, clinicians in the United Kingdom (UK) recognized increased reports of previously healthy children presenting with a severe inflammatory syndrome with Kawasaki disease-like features.1 The cases occurred in children testing positive for current or recent infection by SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, based on reverse-transcriptase...
NYC Cardiologist Survives COVID-19 & Helps Hispanics Fight The Virus
By American Heart Association News New York City cardiologist Dr. Samer Kottiech became a “hardcore COVID expert” the hard way. He developed symptoms he didn’t immediately recognize as COVID-19: redness and pain on the small toes of his left foot and his index finger. Chills and severe muscle aches presented two days later, followed by...
Possible Stroke and COVID-19 Connection Considered By Doctors
By American Heart Association News The first thing to know about the possible links between COVID-19 and stroke is simple, say doctors: We just don’t know. “We have very serious worries that there’s a connection,” said Dr. Patrick D. Lyden, professor of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “But I want to make...
Socioeconomic Conditions Added Causation For Peripheral Artery Disease
In the United States alone the cost of care for patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) has surpassed over 20 billion dollars as published in a study in 2018. These costs are associated with the increasing burden on patients with repeated Physician’s office visits, lost wages, recurring hospital admissions, surgical procedures, care by family members,...
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Update With Dr. Keith Crawford (PHEN)
December 2019 Clinical Trials Update With Dr. Keith Crawford from the Prostate Health Education Network Visit http://www.prostatehealthed.org/phen_tv_video.php?tv_id=291 for monthly updates on clinical trials
African American Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparity - Biology or Access? (PHEN Summit 2019)
The 2019 PHEN Summit was moderated by Dr. James Roberson and speakers included Brandon Mahal, MD and Daniel George, MD discussing the African American prostate cancer health disparity. Visit http://prostatehealthed.org/ for more from PHEN on prostate cancer and clinical trials.
Long-Term Analysis of MINDACT Trial Data Finds Age-Based Disparities Based on Genetic Risk Category
The MINDACT trial sought to create a systematic comparison of therapeutic outcomes for different populations stratified according to clinical and genomic risk categories. Of the 6693 patients involved, all were categorized as a combination of clinical-high, clinical-low, genomic-high and genomic-low risk. The intended outcome of the trial was to determine if clinical-low, genomic-high patients, and...