NATICK, Mass., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) and the University of Rochester Medical Center presented positive results from the Multicenter Automatic ...

Appropriate and inappropriate therapies of implantable cardioverter defibrillators have a major impact on morbidity and quality of life in ICD recipients, but have not been systematically studied in ...

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would establish guidelines to prevent the inappropriate use of step therapy in employer-sponsored health plans, and create a process for ...

Patients experiencing septic shock who receive inappropriate therapy may have a fivefold reduction in survival, shows a new study. Researchers from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Almost half of patients with first-time implantable cardioverter defibrillators had appropriate therapy within 7 ...

AHA: Reprogramming Defibrillators Improves Therapy Reprogramming the firing settings for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in patients with heart disease reduces inappropriate firings ...

A company that owns more than 50 nursing homes in Pennsylvania will pay more than $15.4 million to the government to settle federal whistleblower claims that it provided medically unnecessary ...

Therapists are often contacted by people who have recently experienced a “critical incident." Accidents, crime, violence, death, illness, injury, and natural disaster are part of life everywhere. If ...