ALI Strikes Blacks More Than Whites

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Read more »

Congenital Heart Defect Patients Lack Adequate Adult Care

Babies born with serious congenital heart defects are living into adulthood thanks to surgical repairs and other interventions. But after pediatric care ends, these patients lack adequate follow-up care at adult congenital heart disease centers. Read more »

First Heart Attacks Becoming Less Serious

First heart attacks are less likely to kill people in the U.S. than they used to be, researchers said in a new study. The reasons, according to a study in the journal Circulation, are better prevention efforts and improved treatments. Better control of risk factors, researchers said, can prevent heart attacks and lessen the severity of a first attack. Government statistics reported that heart disease deaths in the U.S. have fallen 30% during the past decade. The researchers studied more than 10,000 first-time heart attack patients between the ages of 35 and 74. Read more »

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