http://phys.org/health-news/cardiology/ en-us PhysOrg Team Phys.Org provides the latest news on cardiology Heart attacks that occur in the morning are likely to be more serious than attacks at other times of the day, a specialist journal reported on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news223061769.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-26T18:36:29-07:00 An examination of health literacy (such as understanding basic health information) among managed care patients with heart failure, a condition that requires self-management, found that nearly one in five have low health literacy, which was associated with a higher all-cause risk of death, according to a study in the April 27 issue of JAMA. http://phys.org/news223053847.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-26T16:24:16-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- This weeks Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) will publish a fascinating new milestone achievement in the search for novel clinical therapies to significantly reduce the loss of tissue and organ-functions following the loss of blood supply in widespread and serious human pathologies such as heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and strokes (cerebral ischemia). This new therapy was also shown to significantly improve the outcome of transplant surgery and of any surgical procedure that involves the temporary loss of blood supply. http://phys.org/news222334236.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-18T15:00:01-07:00 New data from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that wait times for a number of heart surgeries have gone down close to 50 per cent in Alberta and British Columbia. http://phys.org/news221215169.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-05T09:39:45-07:00 A UCLA-led study has found that adherence to national guideline–recommended therapies for heart failure in an outpatient practice setting significantly lowered the mortality rate of heart failure patients. http://phys.org/news221153430.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-04T16:31:10-07:00 The implementation of acute heart attack or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) guidelines, protocols and standing orders in Minnesota community hospitals without cardiac catheterization labs has dramatically improved since 2003, according to a scientific poster that will be presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, April 1-3. http://phys.org/news221131268.html Medicine & Health - Cardiology 2011-04-04T10:21:14-07:00