heart health News
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Pipelife around the world - Finland
In the course of our group-wide charity project, Pipelife Finland has divided its donation in two parts in order to support two organizations: the Northern Ostrobothnia Heart Association and the Save the Children Foundation. The Northern Ostrobothnia regional heart association is a part of the Finnish Heart Association and promotes heart health of the inhabitants of Northern Osthrobothnia. The ...
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Heart Failure Awareness 365: Nutrition/Diet/Exercise
March 2023's Heart Failure Awareness 365 campaign is focusing on: Nutrition/Diet/Exercise. While these three things are important for any individual's everyday health, they can have an even bigger impact if you're living with heart failure. Not only can properly managing these parts of your health alleviate heart failure symptoms, but they can also slow the disease's progression. ...
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Groundbreaking Use of Radar-Equipped Vests in a Hospital Promises to Improve the Care of Heart Failure Patients
Dr. Dan Bensimhon tends to see things differently. At a conference, the director of the Cone Health Advanced Heart Failure Clinic noticed a small vest that uses military technology to measure fluid in the lungs of patients. The company saw the vest as a way for people with heart failure to catch fluid buildup at home before it became a problem. Bensimhon saw the vest as an opportunity to ...
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CardioWise, Inc. Named a Top-Ten Finalist in Best Cardiovascular Digital Diagnostic Category by UCSF Health Hub
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health Hub has selected CardioWise, Inc. a Digital Health Awards 1st Round (Top Ten) Finalist in its Best Cardiovascular Digital Diagnostic category. The goal of UCSF Digital Health Awards was to select companies that promote faster, better, more cost-effective healthcare by improving outcomes such as shorter hospital stays, reduced patient and ...
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Jiffy Lube surpasses $1 million fundraising goal for the American Heart Association`s go red for women movement to fight heart disease
As a result of the generous support of its customers across the country, Jiffy Lube proudly announces that its 2010 Maintenance Partners for Life campaign raised more than $1 million for the American Heart Association's (AHA) Go Red For Women movement -- for a third year. More than 1,700 Jiffy Lube service centers participated in the campaign, which helps raise awareness and funds to fight heart ...
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William A. (Bill) Breukelman Named to CardioWise, Inc. Board of Directors
An internationally recognized entrepreneur, Mr. Breukelman is a pioneer in imaging technology, initially as principal and chairman of IMAX Corporation, followed by significant transformative contributions to medical and scientific research companies in information technology and strategic development. Jack Coats, Chief Executive Officer of CardioWise, Inc., announced that Mr. William A. ...
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EPA Releases New PSA for American Heart Month
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) to educate the public and healthcare providers about the risks of air pollution to the heart. "Over more than four decades of EPA history, we've made tremendous progress cleaning up the air we breathe by using science to understand the harmful effects of air pollution," said EPA Administrator ...
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Kohl`s department stores awards $10,000 scholarships to 10 outstanding young volunteers
Today, Kohl"s Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) named 10 outstanding young volunteers as national winners of the Kohl"s Kids Who Care Scholarship Program. As Kohl"s celebrates 10 years of rewarding stand-up kids through the program, the company has increased its 2010 national scholarship totals to $10,000 per winner. In addition to recognizing these volunteers, ranging in age from nine to 18, with ...
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Insurance auto auctions` one car one difference(TM) car donation program adds four more
Four additional nationally recognized organizations have been added as benefactors of One Car One Difference™, a new program to help charities raise funds for medical research and to provide food, medicine, and shelter to people and animals in need by encouraging the public to donate old cars through a hassle-free donation process. The program, which officially launches this month, will be ...
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Cone Health using radar technology to better treat heart failure
Congestive heart failure is one of the most common reasons elderly people end up in the hospital. When this happens fluid builds up in the lungs and patients have trouble breathing. Cone Health is the first in the country to use a new technology to measure the amount of fluid in the lungs in the inpatient hospital setting. “Now we have a device that lets us know in 90 seconds whether there ...
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CardioWise™ Acquires Worldwide Rights to Patent, and Software to Guide Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Through License Agreement with Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
CardioWise, Inc., is pleased to announce that the company has acquired the worldwide rights to Image Toolbox heart functional analysis software, and pending patent from Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures through a license agreement. The US Patent application was filed November 11, 2016. The software uses cardiac CT patient data sets to determine which heart failure patients may benefit from ...
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CardioWise Completes Small Business Innovation and Research Grant from the National Science Foundation
CardioWise, Inc. has completed National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase I and IB Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grants that continued the development and commercialization of a non-invasive analysis method for detection of heart disease. The final report submitted to the NSF in December detailed the research and development milestones that were achieved during the 2013 award period ...
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Online clinic Medon collaborates with Longenesis to develop a cardiovascular disease risk calculator
In order to increase the public awareness of cardiovascular health and encourage the population to take preventive action by identifying and mitigating the effects of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a timely fashion, the online clinic Medon in collaboration with the health technology start-up Longenesis, has published a survey to determine the CVD risk. After filling the survey, each ...
By Longenesis
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Elucid Eyes Big Opportunity to Save Lives with Software Amidst Major Guideline Changes
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elucid, a medical technology company developing AI software to enable cardiovascular disease detection, expects newly issued guidelines will be a catalyst for non-invasive image, revolutionizing the way patients with coronary artery disease are diagnosed and treated. In a highly anticipated document published online yesterday in Circulation and the Journal of ...
By Elucid
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BioVentrix Announces Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, MD, as Co- Principal Investigator of the REVIVE-HF Clinical Trial
BioVentrix, Inc., developer of the first transcatheter device for left ventricular remodeling after a heart attack, today announced that Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, MD, of the University Medical Center of Mainz (Germany) has joined the European REVIVE-HF clinical trial of the Revivent TC™ Transcatheter Ventricular Enhancement System as co-principal investigator. Dr. von Bardeleben heads ...
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Study Demonstrates Elucid’s Ability to Estimate RNA Expression from Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging
Early detection of high risk plaque phenotypes holds the promise to prevent myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke by enabling personalized therapeutics BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elucid, a medical technology company developing AI software to enable cardiovascular disease detection, and researchers at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), led by Dr. Ulf Hedin, announced ...
By Elucid
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CardioWise Joins the Lucem Health Innovation Collaborative as a Founding Member
CardioWise® and Lucem Health™ announced that CardioWise has become a founding member of the Lucem Health Innovation Collaborative, a partner program designed to help AI/ML innovation move to the forefront of healthcare. The collaborative launched by Mayo Clinic along with other investing partners will help digital health innovators create, deploy, and commercialize transformational ...
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Valcare Medical Announces First-in-Human Transseptal Implant of the AMEND Annuloplasty Ring for Mitral Valve Repair
Valcare Medical Ltd. developer of transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve repair and replacement solutions, announces that it has successfully completed its first-in-human transseptal delivery of the AMEND™ annuloplasty ring. The transseptal AMEND procedure was performed at the Schulich Heart Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, under the Health Canada Special Access ...
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Expanding Possibilities: CD Formulation Unveils Comprehensive Selection of 90+ Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Emerging as an excipient supplier and a contract research organization (CRO), CD Formulation has flourished in the pharmaceutical industry. The company recently unveiled its latest collection of over 90 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to the scientific community. These APIs will serve as essential components in the formulation of various drugs. APIs are the primary components of ...
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Live Webinar by MedAxiom Features Best Practices Using Daxor’s Blood Volume Analysis (BVA-100) to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes & Reduce Costs
Daxor Corporation (Nasdaq: DXR), the global leader in blood volume measurement technology, today announces Daxor’s BVA-100 diagnostic will be featured in a MedAxiom Academy webinar – Best Practices for Using Blood Volume Analysis to Reduce Heart Failure LOS, Readmissions, Mortality and Costs on November 17, 2022, at 1pm ET. This live webinar will take a deep dive into the best ...
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