NEW ORLEANS?About 5,000 medical professionals attended the fourth annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot & Wound Healing conference in October in New Orleans. The attendance was the largest the conference has seen since its founding in 2000.

Cardiovascular Institute of the South hosted the three-day conference, which attracted leaders in healthcare worldwide to discuss the latest advancements in cardiovascular and peripheral vascular care and to allow professionals to earn continuing education credit. It is the fourth largest cardiology conference in the nation.

Renowned physicians from around the world served as guest lecturers for the seminars, including CIS Drs. Craig Walker and David Allie, who serve as co-chairs for the multidisciplinary conference. CIS has spearheaded New Cardiovascular Horizons since its beginning to educate and train medical professionals, including physicians, podiatrists, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists and medical technologists.    

?The goal of New Cardiovascular Horizons is to share visions and to educate,? Dr. Craig Walker said. ?The conference is an extension of CIS?s mission to couple compassionate care with the most modern technology in the world. New Cardiovascular Horizons imparts that mission of forward-thinking to other medical centers worldwide.?

CIS has consistently positioned itself at the forefront of technology. Providing the most up-to-date technology with compassionate care has been the institute?s guiding mission during its 20 years of service to south Louisiana. CIS is comprised of one of the most respected groups of cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and thoracic surgeons, representing every specialty in heart and circulatory medicine. With a team of more than 400 dedicated staff, CIS serves communities throughout the state, as well as attracting national and international patients to its 12 centers.

In addition to offering education, New Cardiovascular Horizons honored interventional cardiologist Martin Leon with the third annual Achievement Award. Dr. Leon?s work has had a worldwide impact by helping to unite the once-disparate worlds of American, European and Asian cardiovascular medicine.
For more information about New Cardiovascular Horizons or CIS, please contact Summer Freeman by calling (800) 425-2565 or visit www.newcvhorizons.com or www.cardio.com.

COSTA MESA, CA June 11, 2004 — The popular “Medical Industry E-mail News Service(TM)” that transmits press releases/news announcements for clients worldwide, topped 200,000 individual e-mail addresses in the distribution list, the publisher announced today, totaling well-over 10 mln transmissions per month.

The reporters/publishers/press/journalists/media segment of the distribution list also passed 30,000 — one of the largest reporter lists in the world. This segment includes general publications, newspapers, websites and online services, as well as traditional medical journals and medical newsletters. “That means that thousands of medical reporters, editors, journalists, healthcare writers, at practically every publication you can think of and thousands more, receive each press release,” notes Dave Anast, Publisher/Editor.

“This is definitely an important component that is clearly one of the best quality, most complete and most comprehensive press lists available anywhere, at any price,” he stresses.

Clients have been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, MDDI, Medical Design Technology, Medical Marketing & Media, Miami Herald, Orange County Register, Transplant News, and dozens of other leading publications and medical journals worldwide.

PASS-AROUND E-MAIL FORWARDING GENERATES A TOTAL READERSHIP OF APPROX. 300,000-500,000 PERSONS WORLDWIDE IN ALMOST 200 COUNTRIES: Based on our ongoing research, an average of approx. 1/2 of the 200,000 emails are forwarded an average of 1-3 additional times. Thus, each press release is seen by tens of thousands of additional decision makers. This factor helps boost registrations for conference organizers who are announcing upcoming medical meetings, for example.

ALMOST 600 MAJOR UNIVERSITIES, LAW FIRMS, PUBLISHERS & MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS RELY ON IT: for the simple reason that it gets more people to show up for their meetings and/or generates more revenues than other services. Our E-mail News Service(TM) is the world’s first, largest, most comprehensive, medical manufacturing executives e-mail distribution list/service for individually transmitting press releases.

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HOW IT WORKS: Simply e-mail us your draft press release (paste it into an email message to: biomednews@aol.com not as a file attachment). Then we transmit it to our in-house list. We handle all of the aggravation and daily changes/additions/deletions - so clients don’t have to.

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KEY CONTACTS: It includes highly-valuable middle to top management, key executives, decision makers and regulatory affairs/QA/QC professionals at practically every medical product manufacturer/supplier & related service provider in the US.

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September 25, 2004 — BioMarket Group announces the addition of a new report entitled “Pipeline Insight: Antihypertensives - Together We Stand, Divided We Fail.

This unique business intelligence report, published by Datamonitor has been released. Ongoing large-scale clinical trials with ARBs are resulting in a shift in physician preference from ACE inhibitors to ARBs and many believe we have reached a significant turning point in the future of ACE inhibitors. Moreover, this analysis also indicates that the future will bring combination therapies into focus. One example is Aliskiren, this drug will be the first oral renin inhibitor to be launched. Its intervention at an earlier stage in the Renin Angiotensin System means it may offer significant advantages in efficacy and tolerability over both ARBs and ACE inhibitors and is likely to become a new blockbuster.

Datamonitor believes that fixed dose combination therapy will grow substantially over the forecast period, exceeding the growth of single pills. Successful strategies for controlling hypertension will need to merge fixed dose combination options with patient-led therapeutic regimes.

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September 17, 2004 — On World Heart Day (Saturday, September 26th), a new voice in the cardiac community will make itself heard as Michael Foote, MA, introduces his Web site, Heart Healthy for Life (http://www.centerforbody-mindintegration.com). This affordable subscription service is building a continent-wide support community for individuals and couples recovering from or seeking to prevent heart episodes. ?After I had my open heart surgeries, I felt pretty isolated and afraid of what might happen down the road,? offers Michael. ?This is why I have created this heart healthy community: to share what I?ve learned and have a place for others to share.?

Foote is a 2002 graduate of the somatic psychology program at Boulder-based Naropa University. He and his team of specialists, several of whom are also Naropa graduates, will offer video seminars, teleconferences, online chats, and live workshops in addition to monthly articles and dialogues published in the member section of the site (http://www.centerforbody-mindintegration.com). Heart Healthy for Life takes a holistic approach to health, drawing on a wide variety of western and eastern healing practices.

Foote?s mission is to assist, support, and guide people through positive experiences of what can otherwise be radical and disruptive change. The diverse Heart Healthy for Life team spans an array of disciplines. Monthly articles authored by health professionals offer practical advice. Kitchen coaching focuses on organization and new cooking methods for healthier lifestyles. Dance and movement specialists encourage creative perspectives on exercise and body awareness, while yoga instructors teach routines tailored to heart patients. The overarching goal is to help people build more relaxation and serenity into their lives while maintaining active, well-balanced routines. ?Each of us has our own unique learning style; that?s why we offer articles, audio lectures, and video presentations to support our members? learning styles,? says Michael.

Through an affiliate organization, Heart Healthy for Life also offers weight loss, wellness, and fitness coaching for groups and individuals. This innovative site is a one-stop shop for the resources people are turning to as the population gains more sophisticated knowledge of both traditional and contemporary healing practices (http://www.centerforbody-mindintegration.com). ?We know that people go through various stages of change in their own time frames. Coaching helps a person move much more quickly into the action stage and assists clients in avoiding lapses so they say in the maintenance stage longer,? says Michael. Heart Healthy for Life is guided by the philosophy that a balance between established, modern, western, and eastern methods provides the most holistic solutions to people?s health needs.

Heart Healthy for Life is offering special rates to charter members. For more information, log on to http://www.centerforbody-mindintegration.com.

September 10, 2004 — Baptist Heart Services, a division of Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., created Baptist Women?s Heart, a program devoted to assess women?s risk for heart disease, their number one killer. The new clinic is located in the Colonnades Medical Office Building, 501 Marshall Street, Jackson, Miss.

For five years, Baptist Heart Services has conducted Every Day Heart Day, a low-cost physician directed, definitive diagnostic heart screening program. Sixty-one percent of participants screened have been women, and sixty percent of those women were identified as having multiple risk factors for heart disease.

Statistics show one of every three American women is dying of heart disease. Through its Every Day Heart Day screening, Baptist developed a focused approach to assist women that are identified in the moderate to high-risk categories for heart disease.

Baptist Women’s Heart assists women in identifying and managing factors that put them at increased risk for heart disease, their number one killer. This affordable, comprehensive screening program includes three packages: an initial $25 heart screening; follow-up evaluation of screening results and physical exam for $45; a maintenance program with an individual healthy heart plan and follow-up office visit for $30.
For more information call (601) 292- 4263.