Guidelines seek to standardize care for diseased heart valves

Article Abstract:

Guidelines intended to standardize management of patients with valvular heart disease stress the importance of early diagnosis and advice valve repair rather than valve replacement for most patients. The updated guidelines, published on June 16, 2006, by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association reflect improved techniques, advances in chronic valve disease management, and shifts in policy since the earlier version of guidelines published in 1998.

Care and treatment, Diagnosis, Practice guidelines (Medicine), Heart valve diseases

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Peter J. Safar, MD: "father of CPR," innovator, teacher, humanist

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The life and career of Peter J. Safar is reviewed. Safar first developed the idea of teaching ordinary citizens CPR so they could help people who have a cardiac arrest outside a hospital. He also helped develop the first intensive care unit and the first paramedic emergency service in the US.

Biography, Personality profile, Safar, Peter J.

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Study finds breastfeeding not protective against development of allergies, asthma

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A study by researchers from Canada and Belarus finds that prolonged or exclusive breastfeeding does not protect newborn infants against developing certain allergies or asthma later in childhood.

Health aspects, Risk factors, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Allergy, Asthma in children, Childhood asthma, Breast feeding, Allergic reaction, Clinical report

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