Two Irvine-based tech companies last week reported quarterly results that are foreshadowing future industry trends.Skyworks Solutions Inc. forecast on April 30 that its fiscal third-quarter sales and adjusted profit will be much lower than analysts expected. It cited slowing mobile device sales. Shares dropped 15% in the following trading session to $90.30, for a $14.4 billion market cap (Nasdaq: SWKS).
Clinicians say that patients with heart valve disease are dying while waiting, as they increasingly have to battle for space in vital but pressed catheterisation labs but Jacqui Thornton finds that solutions are possible
Cardiac catheterisation laboratories or “cath labs” a cross between operating theatres and x ray rooms are an essential part of the NHS. The clinicians working in them are not the most vocal or well known, but in the face of increased pressure their voice is growing louder.
This June a survey of 125 clinicians working in 36 cath labs throughout the UK revealed concern that a lack of capacity and beds was leading to more valve procedures being done non-electively, with poorer outcomes.1 Some 97% of respondents said that non-elective procedures were putting moderate to severe pressure on lists, and 72% said that patients were dying while waiting to be treated.2
The survey was carried out by Heart Valve Voice, a UK heart valve disease charity, and the All Party Par
Grandmother Morgan Lee-Stephens was fortunate that her GP picked up a heart murmur immediately with the stethoscope, telling her it was so severe she needed to go straight to A&E.
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NEW YORK, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and the Global Heart Hub (GHH) have released the global position paper "Heart Valve Disease: Harnessing Innovation to Save Lives, Mitigate Costs, and Advance the Healthy Aging Agenda", which builds on a December 2022 roundtable of cross-sector experts and examines how behavior and policy change can.