Cardiovascular Center News
These news stories and articles about the Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Center and its research and treatment programs may be helpful to you.
- To find articles on various forms of cardiovascular disease, go to healthlink.mcw.edu. The HealthLink Web site is supervised by Medical College of Wisconsin physicians and other health professionals.
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Pilot study showing ResQ-Valve with CPR improves survival rate in cardiac arrest patients to undergo large scale clinical trials
The ResQ-Valve study is one of the promising new treatments for cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury that will be studied under the umbrella of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. [Read More]
Echocardiography Core Lab now available for research
The Division of Internal Medicine Cardiology Section and the Cardiovascular Center have developed an Echocardiography Care Lab dedicated to support the cardiac ultrasound needs of both human and animal research studies conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin. [Read More]
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon joins College faculty, Children's staff
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon Michael E. Mitchell, MD, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic) at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has joined the Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. [Read More]
Seven new members appointed to Medical College of Wisconsin's Cardiovascular Center Advisory Board
Cardiovascular Center Advisory Board members serve as advocates by educating the community on the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and gathering financial support for research conducted in the Center. [Read More]
Designer animals reveal possible heart disease genes
Each year, heart disease claims an estimated 7 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. Scientists have struggled to pinpoint the precise genes behind this complex disease. Now, however, they have a new research ally: the designer rat. [
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Dr. Allen Cowley, Jr. to be honored by the American Physiological Society
The American Physiological Society (APS) has selected Allen W. Cowley, Jr., PhD, Chairman and Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, as its 2006 Ray G. Daggs awardee. [Read More]
Scientists pinpoint inflammation gene
Discovery has implications for wide range of diseases
A team of international researchers, including Medical College physician Ahmed H. Kissebach, MD, PhD, has discovered that a specicfic gene on chromosone 15 regulates inflammation, a finding with implications for a wide range of disorders including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's, and infections. [Read More]
MCW Research Foundation licenses invention for stroke treatment
A new drug to prevent brain damage in stroke victims was licensed by the Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation to Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The new treatment was co-developed in the laboratories of Richard Roman, PhD, and David R. Harder, Professors of Physiology at the Medical College, in cooperation with Taisho scientists. The Research Foundation awarded Taisho exclusive, world-wide rights to further develop and commercialize the drug. [Read More]
Medical College of Wisconsin earns Charity Navigator's highest rating among 30 Milwaukee-area non-profits
The Medical College of Wisconsin won the highest overall rating among 30 Milwaukee-area non-profits evaluated by New Jersey-based Charity Navigator, America's largest independent evaluator of charities. The ratings are provided to help donors evaluate where their contributions will be most effective. [Read More]
Researchers receive new grants to enhance their landmark discovery of heart-protecting anesthetics
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a five-year, $1 million grant to study the mechanisms by which inhaled anesthetics protect human heart against injury from interruptions in blood flow like those occuring during heart surgery. [
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Study: Waist circumference can predict heart disease risk
The circumference of your waist correlates more closely with several known risk factors for heart disease than does your body mass index (BMI), according to a Medical College of Wisconsin study published this spring in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. [
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Canadian, US researchers identify important new genetic information that could improve diagnosis, treatment of high blodd pressure
Canadian researchers and U.S. researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have announced important new information on the genetics of hypertension that offers hope for improved diagnosis and treatment og high blood pressure, a condition that affects millions of North Americans. [
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Salt retention hormone a greater factor in African American high blood pressure according to US/Canadian research team
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is 50 percent more prevalent in African Americans than in Caucasians, and salt retention may be a potent contributor to this high rate among African Americans. [
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Medical College stem cell research shows potential for replacing tissue damaged in heart attacks
A Medical College of Wisconsin research team, led by
John W. Lough, PhD, Professor of
Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, has found that embryonic stem cells (ES cells) in animals can be cultivated to form new tissue, which eventually may help doctors learn how to replace tissue damaged as a result of a heart attack. [
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Outcomes research improves long-term treatment of severe heart defect in children
In the early 1990's, babies born with an extreme heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) had very little hope of survival. In the intervening years, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have helped dramatically change the outcomes. [
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Study: Genes can influence where plaque happens in heart arteries
Heredity sometimes influences where fatty deposits develop in a coronary artery, researchers reported in the Feb. 14 issue of C
irculation: Journal of the American Heart Association. [
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Researchers evaluate world's best heart imaging system as non-invasive alternative to diagnose and treat heart disease
Medical College of Wisconsin physicians at Froedtert Hospital are using the most powerful medical CT scanner in the world to research the potential for noninvasive approaches to diagnosing and treating heart disease. The initial results of the study are already changing the way cardiac medicine is praticed. [
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