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[HealthDay, May 11, 2012] A new treatment that involves spinning bone marrow stem cells to enhance their healing potential may help people with advanced heart failure feel and function better, a small study suggests. Researchers developed the treatment by culturing a patient’s own bone marrow for 12 days. This process helped increase the amount of [...]

[KSTP.com, April 30, 2012] Would you bang on a drum with some of your neighbors if it meant better health? From drumming to jumping to blood pressure screenings, hundreds of families are learning more about a new initiative to give neighborhoods the tools to live healthier lives. Read more at kstp.com.

[Star Tribune, April 14, 2012] Allina Hospitals and Clinics has broken ground on a new emergency department at WestHealth in Plymouth. They’re building an 18,000 square-foot building to offer a 24-hour, full-service emergency department. It will be staffed by physicians from Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Allina officials said the expansion allows the hospital to treat patients [...]

[MedCity News, March 28, 2012] The fear of sports injury is the ever-present, though less-focused-on, reality that plagues tournaments like March Madness, especially players who play the most games — the Final Four. But now, new treatments and new rehab tools are being developed to manage injuries like patellar tendonitis or perform anterior cruciate ligament [...]

[St.LouisParkPatch, February 9, 2012] It’s Sunday evening, and Jack Jablonski is hosting a Super Bowl party. Of course, the locale isn’t exactly what Jablonski would have in mind.  The 16-year-old sophomore, who was severely injured by a hit he took in a game on Dec. 30, is at the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute in Minneapolis. [...]

[The Patch, Jan. 31, 2012] Have you ever had an ailment that just wouldn’t go away, despite your doctor’s best care? At Allina Medical Clinic – Northfield—as elsewhere—it’s become increasingly common for such patients to be referred to an acupuncturist, which is often their first venture into the widening world of alternative/complementary medicine. Read the full [...]

[Heartwire.com, January 20, 2012] A meeting of the minds in Minneapolis today aims, in part, to figure out what to do with the thousands of people in the US—about 79 000, according to St Jude Medical—who remain fitted with the company’s “recalled” St Jude Medical Riata or Riata ST implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. There remains a [...]

[Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12, 2012] Long-distance runners can breathe a little easier. Scattered reports of heart-related deaths during marathons and half marathons over the past few years have prompted questions about the safety of the events. But a study of participants over more than a decade found only a tiny risk of cardiac arrest [...]

[Business Wire, Jan. 7, 2012] Cardiovascular leaders will gather in Minneapolis for a one-day summit on Jan. 20, to review data for Riata and Riata ST implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads, which recently underwent a Class I FDA recall. The summit directors are Robert G. Hauser, MD, senior cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott [...]

[Nurse.com, November 21, 2011] Delay in initiation of therapeutic hypothermia and delay in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), evidenced by a palpable pulse or a measurable blood pressure, were both associated with poor neurologic outcomes in post-cardiac arrest patients, according to a study. Susan Sendelbach, RN, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital [...]

[HealthDay News, November 16, 2011] Women and younger men account for a large number of heart attacks in the United States but are less likely than older men to receive preventive medications that lower heart attack risk, a new study indicates. Researchers evaluated more than 3,000 heart attack patients treated at the Minneapolis Heart Institute [...]

[HealthDay News, November 15, 2011] Elite female marathon runners have less coronary artery plaque than their male counterparts and sedentary women, a new study finds. A recent Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation study found that elite male marathoner runners may have more coronary artery plaque than men who aren’t physically active, so the investigators decided to [...]