Waltham, MA - Fewer than one in five people receive cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services after an MI or coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a new study, by Dr Jose A Suaya (Brandeis ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Exercise-based rehabilitation programs for heart patients are tied to health benefits even among the most elderly, according to a new study. “Unfortunately, ...

Nurse scientist Linda Park, PhD, uses NIH funding to study cardiac rehab and digital tools—like pedometers and apps—to ...

In this study, outcomes were investigated among a cohort of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who participated in a cardiac rehabilitation program post hospital ...

The holidays can bring cold weather festive activities, but they can also bring heart emergencies. Global Medical Response has found that cardiac emergencies rise by more than 30% on Christmas Eve.

Pictured is LMH Health’s cardiac rehab team: from left, nurses Leann Dickson, Leann Towner and Kelly Kallenberger, exercise physiologist Vic White, nurses Vickie Friel and Liz Walters, exercise ...

(Reuters Health) - Women are less likely than men to participate fully in cardiac rehabilitation programs, which could impede their recovery from heart attacks and heart procedures, say Canadian ...

For Medicare, congestive heart failure is the most common reason for hospital admissions and readmissions and it is among the most costly diseases to treat. The Care Continuum Alliance estimates that ...

Use of cardiac rehabilitation after open heart valve surgery is associated with lower rates of hospitalization and mortality in the year after discharge, an analysis of Medicare data shows. Mortality ...

The first week after her heart transplant, Eileen Ryan was a wreck. Overcome by weakness, she couldn’t stand or walk. Going home from the hospital, she had to rely on a wheelchair. That was in ...

Exercise physiologist Courtney Conners checks Mario Oikonomides’ vital signs before his cardiac rehab workout. (Francis Ying/KHN) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mario Oikonomides credits a massive heart ...