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Health Tip: Do You Have a Heart Murmur?

-- A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound made by the heart as it beats. The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says some cases have no obvious warning signs. In other cases, symptoms...

HD Medical, Inc. Hosts Launch Celebration for Newly Formed US Business Unit at ACC.13

At the American College of Cardiology’s 62nd Annual Scientific Session & Expo, ACC.13, HD Medical, Inc. will hold “Heart & Sound” an ACC.13 Industry Event celebratin...

Screening for rheumatic heart disease: current approaches and controversies

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is preventable, yet continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries. In this Review, Kathryn Roberts and colleagues examine...

Innocent (Harmless) Heart Murmurs in Children

A murmur is the sound of blood flowing through the heart and the largeblood vessels that carry the blood through the body. Murmurs can be a sign of a congenital (from birth) heart defect or can provid...

Download Ebook: How are cost effectiveness, real world data and value affecting phase IIIb and IV trials?

            Download free ebook now This Ebook includes insight from industry experts on the following questions: What challenges are facing [...]

Softway Solutions Develops Award-Winning Health App for Texas Heart Institute

HOUSTON, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Softway Solutions development team has received a Bronze Web Health Award for their development work of the iPhone / Android application Auscultation Pr...

Covenant free seminar focuses on living with heart disease

Covenant Health is hosting the August Heart Matters free seminar to focus on how to live with heart disease. The "Living with Heart Disease" presentation will be on Friday, Aug. 24. The seminar will b...

Boston Scientific wins FDA nod for lead-free heart implant

The FDA has granted Boston Scientific approval for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator it acquired through its $1.35 bi -More- FREE WEBINAR On Demand: Pilgrim Document Management: Coll...

Accuracy of Cardiac Auscultation in Asymptomatic Neonates with Heart Murmurs: Comparison Between Pediatric Trainees and Neonatologists.

The aim of this study was to assess whether cardiac auscultation performed by pediatric trainees and neonatologists can reliably distinguish innocent from pathologic heart murmurs in asymptomatic neon...

Detection of innocent systolic murmurs by auscultation and their relation to hematologic and echocardiographic findings in clinically normal Whippets.

Objective-To determine murmur prevalence by auscultation of 105 apparently healthy Whippets without signs of cardiac disease, to determine the origin of these murmurs, and to evaluate the influence of...

Name that murmur - eponyms for the astute auscultician.

After the introduction of the stethoscope by René Laennec in 1819, the art of auscultation gained traction as a group of early adopters described the heart murmurs they were now able to hear. A race...

Comparison of conventional and sensor-based electronic stethoscopes in detecting cardiac murmurs of dogs.

Background and objective: Cardiac auscultation is one of the most important parts of the cardiological examination traditionally performed with acoustic stethoscopes. The aim of this study was to comp...

Diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease in emergency medicine.

A popular saying holds that if one can hear a heart murmur in the middle of a loud and busy emergency department, then by definition the murmur is significant. Whether or not this is actually true, it...