Cure Magazine Wins Award, A-Fib News

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CURE wins big at the 2010 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards

Dallas, Texas (Feb. 16, 2011) –– CURE magazine and its accompanying website,

Curetoday.com, have won three prestigious national awards at the 2010 Folio:

Awards. CURE, a free, direct-to-patient cancer publication, won the gold Eddie

for best publication in the Consumer, Health and Fitness category, and

Curetoday.com took home the gold Eddie for best website in the same category.

The magazine won a bronze Eddie for best cover with its Winter 2009 issue.

CURE magazine combines science and humanity to help patients, survivors and

caregivers navigate the cancer journey and understand their diagnosis and

treatment while providing tools to cope during and after cancer. Every product

produced by CURE Media Group has been recognized for national awards within its

field. With the addition of these three Folio: Awards, CURE Media Group has been

recognized nationally 37 times, making CURE the most recognized

direct-to-patient magazine in the country.

“When our patients are first diagnosed, they want all the information they can

get about their disease…what are the best treatments, what are the experts

saying, and how have other cancer patients dealt with challenges during their

cancer journey. CURE provides all these things in a way that makes the patients

feel like they are not alone in the cancer fight.”

http://tinyurl.com/4qdkgef

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A-Fib (The Heart, Head Connection) (get free booklet)

http://www.multaq.com/Consumer/about-atrial-fibrillation.aspx

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About the program

Under the auspices of the International Cardiology Forum, this series of four

Web casts will explore management of atrial fibrillation in all its dimensions,

from maximizing net clinical benefit in stroke prevention to different

approaches to addressing the underlying arrhythmia. In aggregate, these Web

casts are intended to serve as a curriculum on this dysrhythmia. These Web casts

will consider the latest data on new therapies or strategies, integrating these

data into the large body of evidence that has accrued over the past several

decades and upon which current treatment guidelines are based.

Target audiences

This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of cardiologists,

internists, family practitioners, and other health care professionals caring for

patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation who are at risk of embolic stroke.

Saving Warfin:

http://www.exeter-group.net/icf-af/slides/kimmel/index.html

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The human heart has two upper chambers and two lower chambers. The upper

chambers are called the left atrium and the right atrium - the plural of atrium

is atria. The two lower chambers are the the left ventricle and the right

ventricle. When the two upper chambers - the atria - contract at an excessively

high rate, and in an irregular way, the patient has atrial fibrillation.

The term atrial fibrillation comes from the Latin words atrium, meaning " hall " ,

fibrilla, meaning " small fiber " , and atio, meaning " process " . According to

Medilexicon's medical dictionary, atrial fibrillation is " fibrillation in which

the normal rhythmic contractions of the cardiac atria are replaced by rapid

irregular twitchings of the muscular wall; the ventricles respond irregularly to

the dysrhythmic bombardment from the atria. "

Put simply - during atrial fibrillation the contractions of the two upper

chambers of the heart are not synchronized with the contractions of the two

lower chambers. Atrial fibrillation is a rapid and irregular heart rate. It

frequently causes poor blood flow to the body.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/atrial-fibrillation/

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Useful Heart Disease Links and Resources

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/atrial-fibrillation/usefullinks.php

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The Mount Sinai Medical Center has become the first hospital in the United

States to perform a cardiac catheterization procedure using the TactiCath

force-sensing ablation catheter for the treatment of symptomatic paroxysmal

atrial fibrillation (AF), or periodic rapid and irregular heartbeats. The new

procedure will allow physicians to more safely and effectively treat AF, which

affects more than two million Americans.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/218837.php

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The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, a leader in heart valve

replacement, will participate in a national clinical trial to offer patients a

less invasive approach to replacing diseased aortic valves.

The nationally ranked U-M is among 40 sites in the nation selected for the

Medtronic CoreValve U.S. Pivotal trial, a study that will examine an

investigational alternative to open heart surgery for patients with severe

aortic stenosis.

About 100,000 Americans, most of them over the age of 70, are diagnosed with

severe aortic stenosis each year, but one-third of patients, because of age or

frail health, are considered too high-risk for traditional surgery.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/218683.php

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FYI,

Lottie Duthu