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LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Prenatal Therapeutics (APT), a privately held company, is developing a medical device that will help alleviate the high blood pressure and other symptoms associated with preeclampsia. APT's targeted apheresis cartridge is expected to be the first medical device specifically designed to treat preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal and fetal death. Every year, preeclampsia affects approximately 300,000 pregnant women in the...

A drug commonly used to treat depression and anxiety may improve a stress-related heart condition in people with stable coronary heart disease, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Compared with those receiving placebo, people who took the antidepressant escitalopram (sold as Lexapro) were more than two-and-a-half times less likely to have mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI), a heart condition brought on by mental stress. The findings, published in the May 22/29, 2013...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Military service personnel who suffer at least two mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are far more likely to commit suicide or have suicidal thoughts than those who have one or fewer such injuries, according to research published online Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. According to Michelle Castillo of CBS News, researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah report that TBIs, which...

An experimental, inexpensive iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. The app could help save lives by speeding treatment for the deadliest type of heart attack known as STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction), in which a clot blocks blood flow to the heart. A critical...

Procedure Traditionally used during heart surgery and in the ICU may show promise as a rescue strategy for select cardiac arrest patients Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and in the ICU that functions as an artificial replacement for a patient's heart and lungs, has also been used to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now, a novel study of this technique in the U.S. has been completed by...

The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, a national nonprofit organization, will participate in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community on Saturday, May 18 in Pittsburgh, Penn., to raise awareness about the nation’s leading cause of death and help save lives. Survivors and families affected by sudden cardiac death are urged to join or support the team here. Pittsburgh, Penn. (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Sudden cardiac arrest, an abrupt, unexpected pulseless condition, is a much bigger public...

SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amara Health Analytics today announced that the company's software, Clinical Vigilance(TM) for Sepsis, was used to study the impact of timely administration of antibiotics in cases of severe sepsis. The study was conducted by researchers at Cooper University Hospital, and it is being presented this week at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting in Atlanta. (Photo:...

- More than 18 Million Brazilians have Reimbursable Access to MGuard EPS - BOSTON and TEL AVIV, Israel, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InspireMD, Inc. ("InspireMD" or the "Company") (NYSE MKT: NSPR), a leader in embolic protection stents, today announced that it received reimbursement approval for the MGuard(TM) Coronary Embolic Protection Stent (EPS) from UNIMED, Brazil's largest private health care insurer. Alan Milinazzo, InspireMD's President and CEO said,...

University of California, Berkeley New technology developed at the University of California, Berkeley, is using wireless signals to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnoses of brain swelling or bleeding. The device analyzes data from low energy electromagnetic waves that are similar to those used to transmit radio and mobile signals. The technology, described in the May 14 issue of the journal PLOS ONE, could potentially become a cost-effective tool for medical diagnostics and to...

Parker Waichman LLP continues to offer advice to women who have suffered serious side effects such as uterine perforation, migration, and removal surgery due to the alleged design defect of Bayer’s Mirena IUD. New York, New York (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of victims injured by defective drugs and medical devices, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a woman who alleges that she was injured by using Bayer’s Mirena IUD...