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Time of day affects heart attack severity
[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 [...]
Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:13 am under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, heart health, Minneapolis Heart Institute, UPI.
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Preventive Heart Drugs Not Being Taken
[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 [...]
Posted: November 18th, 2010, 11:51 am under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Newswires, UPI.
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‘Non-drugs’ ease hospital pain
[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 [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:04 pm under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Institute for Health and Healing, Newswires, UPI.
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