In the United States, only a quarter of the 120,000 patients who need an organ transplant ultimately receive one. Meanwhile, thousands of organs are discarded each year as a result of injury from inadequate blood flow (ischemic injury) as the … Read More
NIH Funding for Non-Healing Wounds in Diabetic Patients
Dr. Katherine Gallagher, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan and 2012 Wylie Scholar has just received $2.4 million from the NIH to investigate how we may be able to better treat non-healing wounds, a major cause … Read More
$100 Million for Cardiovascular Artificial Intelligence
The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC) in Toronto, Canada has received a $100 million donation to optimize qualify of care and improve health outcomes for patients living with cardiovascular diseases. SAB member and 1998 Wylie Scholar, Dr. Barry Rubin, is … Read More
Sean English Named 2017 Wylie Scholar
Sean English, MD, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been named the 2017 Wylie Scholar by Vascular Cures and the Society for Vascular Surgery. He is the 20th Wylie Scholar and the 4th from Washington … Read More
The benefits of #walking are widespread, but for #PAD patients walking may be a method of pain management:
https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/heart-and-vascular-blog/2016/february/the-best-workout-to-manage-symptoms-of-peripheral-artery-disease#:~:text=When%20your%20muscles%20cramp%20in,as%20the%20progression%20of%20PAD.
#HealthForAll
According to a recent study, the @HeartNews finds: "People living in rural areas of the United States are less likely to get the most advanced treatments for stroke and more likely to die in the hospital than their urban counterparts." #HealthForAll
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/06/18/stroke-patients-more-likely-to-die-in-rural-hospitals-than-in-urban-ones
The recent story on @padadvocate's work highlights the need for policies to support access to clinically appropriate PAD screening and treatment for America’s most at-risk patient populations.
#TogetherAgainstLimbLoss http://ow.ly/HZLy50zTToz
