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[Bloomberg BusinessWeek, March 29, 2012] Defective wires made by St. Jude Medical Inc. to connect heart-shocking defibrillators caused at least 20 patient deaths due to short circuiting, according to an article published in a leading cardiology journal. Dr. Robert Hauser of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital analyzed a database of reported device [...]

[UPI.com, November 21, 2011] The severity of a heart heart — and subsequent recovery — depends on what time of day the heart attack occurs, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Jay H. Traverse, a cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and physician researcher with Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation who was [...]

[Kaiser Health News and the Washington Post, October 10, 2011] Last spring, at a seminar for survivors of head and neck cancer in Minneapolis, Mary Harder looked around the room with some dismay. “There were several people who had exactly the same cancer as me, but their lives were much different because they hadn’t had [...]

[Health Behavior News, Aug. 18, 2011] U.S. health care workers, especially doctors and nurses, use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) far more than do workers in other fields, according to a new study. CAM includes diverse therapies outside the realm of conventional medicine. Overall, 76 percent of health care workers report CAM usage, compared with [...]

[Associated Press, April 4, 2011] The death of a Michigan teenage basketball player has renewed questions about what kind of heart checkup young athletes need to make the team, and a new study may influence that debate. The recurring debate is over whether to add routine EKGs to young athletes’ pre-sports checkups. The goal is [...]

[United Press International, Nov. 17, 2010] Many patients at risk for heart disease were rarely on primary preventive medications when stricken with an acute heart attack, according to researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Kevin Graham, MD, lead investigator, presented their findings at the American Heart Association’s scientific [...]

[Newswise, April 26. 2010] Who: The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Mayo Clinic, and University of Minnesota are convening The Women and Heart Disease Summit in Minneapolis. Minnesota First Lady Mary Pawlenty is the honorary chair person; and co-chair people are Elizabeth Zane Grey, M.D., Sharonne Hayes, M.D., and [...]

[United Press International, Mar. 10, 2010] Non-traditional techniques are effective in reducing pain in hospitalized patients, U.S. researchers say. The therapies did not involve medication and were observed to relieve pain as much as 50 percent in a wide range of hospitalized patients. “Roughly 80 percent of patients report moderate to severe pain levels after [...]

[Marketwire, Jan. 6, 2010] VHA Inc., the national health care network, and 12 of its largest member organizations, including Allina Hospitals & Clinics, say the federal government should emphasize implementing GS1 data standards while they promote electronic medical records (EMRs), since both improve operational efficiencies and reduce health care costs; however, adopting data standards for [...]