OBJECTIVE: The primary aim of our work is to determine the incidence of atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery in adults withcongenital heart disease. Secondary aims include identifying risk factors predictive of developing earlypostoperative atrial fibrillation and morbidities associated with earlypostoperative atrial fibrillation. Retrospective analysis. Continue reading →

Veronika Sedlakova, post-doctoral fellow (L), Sarah Mclaughlin, PhD(c), and Dr. Emilio Alarcon, principal investigator and laboratory director, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, have developed a recombinant human collagen matrix for cardiac tissue repair Continue reading →

MARION -- Early on, the Weglowskis learned how to read the doctors wardrobe. As he would approach down a hallway toward the waiting room -- in what they couldnt help but recognize from every hospital scene from every TV show and movie ever made -- he would either be wearing scrubs or a suit Continue reading →

The government issued an order on Saturday expanding the Dr. YSR Aarogyasri scheme, covering 17 superspecialties and involving 716 procedures, to the empanelled hospitals in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad from November 1. It is in fulfilment of Chief Minister Y.S Continue reading →

It took years for Emilio Alarcon and his University of Ottawa Heart Institute research team to fully believe what they were seeing that a gel they had developed containing human collagen was repairing damaged hearts in mice. They repeated their research study several times, coming up with randomized, blinded results, just to make sure the findings were correct Continue reading →

The number of doctors is not necessarily directly related to the quality of healthcare available in a particular country Recently, I read an article in a local newspaper in which the writer said that Pakistan does not have enough doctors. Enough is, of course, an entirely subjective term. So I looked up some numbers about doctors per a certain amount of population in several countries Continue reading →

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Despite contributing to the vaping panic rolling across the country, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a key step towards institutionally recognizing tobacco harm reduction. On October 22, a handful of snus productssmokeless tobacco pouches that are placed under the lip to allow absorption of nicotinewere approved to be marketed as bearing reduced risks in comparison to combustible cigarettes. Its the first time the regulatory agency has ever permitted this. Continue reading →

A dual-acting osteoporosis drug. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery Continue reading →

A baby boy who suffered a cardiac arrest defied the odds by waking up from a five-day coma and smiling up at his delighted father. Stuart and Emma Labuschagne had been braced for their 14-week old son to never again open his eyes after he was rushed to hospital in the early hours of March 16, when he began frantically gasping for air. Continue reading →