The US government has joined a cardiologist in a whistleblower lawsuit against Hamot Medical Center  in western Pennsylvania  and a group of cardiologists with whom he once practiced, Ed Palattella reports in the Erie Times-News. Cardiologist Tullio Emanuele, who now practices in Kentucky, has accused five former colleagues, members of Medicor Associates Inc. and its affiliate, Flagship Cardiac, [...]

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A Big Chill Restores Man’s Life After Heart Attack

by CLT Staff on January 26, 2012

NEWARK — Barry Ash, 55 of Maplewood, woke up on Friday morning at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center feeling cold. “It was weird. My legs were shivering, but my head was sweating,” Mr. Ash recounted. He was emerging from medically induced hypothermia that saved his brain function following a massive heart attack. Mr. Ash does [...]

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BINP transfers to affect researchand treatment

by CLT Staff on January 26, 2012

It would take time for BINP, which has 12 full-time doctors, to settle down with a new panel, admit the authorities. But it would tide over the teething problems soon, claimed director Asit Senapati. “It won’t be much of a problem for the new doctors to slip into the job. After all, it’s about efficiently [...]

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Sheridan Memorial Hospital is committed to providing a cardiac catheterization lab to provide cardiac care for Sheridan County residents. The plot is to build the cath lab where the current Pathology Department is says Hospital Facilities Services Manager Rob Forister. The Board approved $337,000 to go the Pathology Department. O’Dell Construction of Sheridan will be [...]

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Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Wise Regional Health System

January 25, 2012

Keith McIntosh, RCIS, LMRT, CRT Director Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Wise Regional Health System

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Parma Community General Hospital ranked first in Ohio for coronary intervention

January 24, 2012

Parma Community General Hospital has been named the best hospital in Ohio — and among the top 5 percent in the nation — for coronary interventional procedures. The ranking came from HealthGrades, a nationwide independent source of physician information and hospital quality. “We’re proud of the cardiac care we deliver to the community,” said Dr. Christine Zirafi, [...]

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Cardiologists charged with Medicare fraud in over-stenting cases

January 24, 2012

January 23, 2012 by MassDevice staff A whistleblower lawsuit accuses 5 Pennsylvania cardiologists with defrauding Medicare by performing unnecessary cardiac procedures. A whistle-blower lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania accuses 5 cardiologists of defrauding Medicare by performing unnecessary cardiac procedures. The qui tam suit, filed by Dr. Tullio Emanuele, alleges that [...]

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GE Healthcare presents broad portfolio of technologies to meet needs of Middle …

January 24, 2012

Text size     Dubai, UAE; January 24, 2012: Visitors of the Arab Health Exhibition Congress, taking place from January 23-26 at the Dubai International Convention Exhibition Centre, can explore GE Healthcare’s robust portfolio of innovations for cath labs. Based on the company’s reliable, high-performance Innova IGS interventional X-ray platform, GE Healthcare’s newly expanded family [...]

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Go Red in Feb to help Worthing Hospital

January 24, 2012

Published on Tuesday 24 January 2012 11:00 DO you have the heart to go Red in Feb? Worthing Hospital has launched its latest campaign in support of the ongoing £1million fund-raising appeal for a new cardiac cath lab. Red in Feb involves people dressing in red for one day in February. From lipstick and lycra [...]

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Island hospital, paramedics fight back against heart attack

January 22, 2012

Area paramedics are using new tools to help victims of serious heart problems survive and recover. The procedures and equipment allow vital data to be transmitted to Hilton Head Hospital at the same time patients are being tended by paramedics. Doctors at the hospital, armed the data they’ve reviewed before the patient arrives, are prepared [...]

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