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DALLAS, July 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Finding the right hospital for treating heart disease and stroke just got easier, thanks to a new online tool from the American Heart Association/American...

DALLAS, June 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Study Highlights: North Carolina's coordinated regional systems to rapidly treat severe heart attacks saved lives and are a model for national...

Study Highlights: The number of systems of care for quickly transferring and treating heart attack patients has increased substantially. Survey findings show similar characteristic in...

Highlight: Patients taken directly to a hospital equipped to treat heart attacks with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) received treatments an average of 31 minutes faster than patients...

Highlights:. The American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline® Cardiac Resuscitation program aims to increase cardiac arrest survival by establishing systems of care to respond and treat...

DALLAS, March 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline program is featured on the First Responder Network's new WebTV series, "Code STEMI". The series, launched...

DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Study highlights: More than 90 percent of heart attack patients who require an emergency artery-opening procedure known as angioplasty, are treated...