Releases Music Video
For Fan-Favorite Track
"Reaper"
To Tour With Boston Manor, Can't Swim and A Will Away
Tickets Available Now Here
September 29th, 2017 - Baltimore, MD - Have Mercy has released a music video for "Reaper," a fan-favorite track from their recently released album, Make The Best Of It. Fans can check out the video, directed by Danielle Elise Bartley and featuring the story behind the album's cover art at smarturl.it/ReaperVideo. On the video, Singer and Guitarist Brian Swindle shares, "Reaper was one of my favorite songs off of our new record. It felt super energetic and was a lot darker than our other songs. We didn't have a lot to do with the production of the video but I think that's why I like it so much. I don't want to be the band who's always the 'star' of the video. I want the songs to carry a story and a life of their own. The director really let that show"
With support from Boston Manor, Can't Swim and A Will Away, Have Mercy will be kicking off their Headlining Tour next Friday, October 6th with a hometown show in Baltimore, MD. This tour will make 30 stops in cities across the United States, wrapping up on November 12th in Boston, MA. For more information and to purchase tickets, please head to http://havemercy.shofetti.com.
Make The Best Of It (Hopeless Records) secured the #2 spot for Alternative New Artist Albums, #3 for Top New Artist Albums, #8 for Record Label Independent Current Albums and #15 on the Top Current Rock Albums. The album has also been praised by outlets like CLRVYNT, Alternative Press, The Noise, Stitched Sound, Soundfiction and more.
For more information on Have Mercy and the upcoming tour, please visit wearehavemercy.com.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
10/6 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
10/7 - Richmond, VA - The Camel
10/8 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theater
10/10 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar
10/11 - Margate, FL - O'Mally's
10/12 - Orlando, FL - Backbooth
10/13 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
10/14 - Nashville, TN - The End
10/16 - Houston, TX - Walter's Downtown
10/17 - Austin, TX - Come and Take It Live
10/18 - Dallas, TX - RBC
10/20 - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Theater
10/21 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
10/22 - San Diego, CA - The Irenic
10/24 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
10/25 - Berkeley, CA - Cornerstone
10/27 - Portland, OR - Analog Theater
10/28 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
10/30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
10/31 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theater
11/1 - Kansas City, MO - Davey's Uptown
11/3 - Minneapolis, MN - Amsterdam
11/4 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean
11/5 - Detroit, MI - Loving Touch
11/7 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall's
11/8 - Toronto, ON - Hard Luck Bar
11/9 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory
11/10 - Buffalo, NY - Studio Waiting Room
11/11 - Philadelphia, PA - FUT
11/12 - Boston, MA - Sinclair
Tour Flyer Download: Here
Cover Art Download: Here
Press Photo Download: Here
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Magnetic resonance imaging appears to be safe for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices, even for chest imaging, according to a new study by Utah researchers.
You would think if there was even a 1 percent chance of having a problem, it would have shown up. Not even one generator or lead needed more than a minor adjustment, if any at all.”
— Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute
SALT LAKE CITY , UT, USA, September 29, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Magnetic resonance imaging appears to be safe for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices, even for chest imaging, according to a new study by researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.
In the past, MRIs have been considered dangerous for people who have the devices. However, the new study, “Real World MRI Experience with Non-Conditional and Conditional Cardiac Rhythm Devices After MagnaSafe,” published in the Journal of Clinical Electrophysiology, found that MRI imaging can be safely performed on patients with devices.
“Magnetic resonance imaging has become very popular,” said Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, senior study author and cardiologist at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. “It’s excellent for looking at soft tissue changes. But it involves very high-strength magnetic fields, which means if a patient has any implanted metal devices containing iron, it could potentially cause harm.”
X-rays can see bone, but they don’t provide much information about soft tissues like the brain, the heart or other internal organs. “MRIs are marvelous for that,” Dr. Anderson said.
Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute researchers evaluated 212 MRI studies in 178 patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device between February 2014 and August 2016. They didn’t find a single problem requiring remediation in the entire series, which involved a total of 418 implanted leads.
“That’s a pretty big number of leads exposed to these very strong MRI fields. You would think if there was even a 1 percent chance of having a problem, it would have shown up,” Dr. Anderson said. “Not even one generator or lead needed more than a minor adjustment, if any at all.”
In the past, MRIs have been considered risky because of the fear a pacemaker or defibrillator device’s generator circuits could be disrupted, or its metal leads could be pulled out of place by the magnetism, or the lead tips could become hot and scar surrounding tissues, interfering with pacing and defibrillating function.
To counter that, some newer devices have been specifically made and tested to be safe for use with MRIs, under certain test conditions in magnetic fields. Devices in this category are referred to as “conditional CIEDs” (cardiac implantable electronic devices), and have been approved for MRI use under imaging conditions implemented by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Most people who have implantable defibrillators and pacemakers don’t have these newer, more expensive conditional devices, however. Rather, they have standard non-conditional devices. In patients with non-conditional devices who have a medical need for imaging, and in whom MRI is deemed the most desirable diagnostic tool, MRI usually hasn’t been used, or the non-conditional devices and leads have been removed and replaced with conditional devices and leads beforehand.
Imaging decision-making for those with cardiac implantable electronic devices has started to change with publication this year of a large multicenter study called the MagnaSafe Registry study, which showed that non-conditional devices can be safely imaged by MRI, if proper precautions are observed. That study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That study was limited in that it looked at safety of MRIs only in parts of the body not in direct proximity to the implantable cardiac rhythm devices, which are typically in the chest under one of the collarbones.
The new Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute study directly builds on the MagnaSafe study, validating findings of the main MagnaSafe cohort of 1,500 patients, and expanding that group of patients to include those who need an MRI of their lungs, heart or other organs within the chest.
In addition, the new study includes many patients with conditional devices, providing a side-by-side comparison of the two types of devices.
The lead author and several of the other researchers involved in the earlier MagnaSafe trial, including Dr. Anderson, already have signed and submitted a letter to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking it begin to pay for medically-necessary MRIs done in patients with non-conditional devices and performed under the specially monitored situations that MagnaSafe showed to be safe.
Dr. Anderson said the new study by the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute team confirms the MagnaSafe findings and shows it’s also safe to use MRI to look at the heart or lungs in patients with these implantable devices.
Besides Dr. Anderson, the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute research team included Steve Mason, PA-C; Jeffrey S. Osborn, MD; Ritesh Dhar, MD; Allison Tonkin, MD; Jon-David Ethington, PA-C; Viet Le, MPAS, PA-C; Jose Benuzillo, PhD, MStat; Donald L. Lappé, MD; Kirk U. Knowlton, MD; and T. Jared Bunch, MD.
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DENVER—News broke Thursday night that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joins the ranks of HHS Secretary Tom Price and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who flew private flights in lieu of commercial at taxpayer expense.
In Secretary Zinke’s case, the most egregious case of private travel occurred on June 26th, when the secretary opted against flying commercial to spend an evening with the Las Vegas professional hockey team—a team owned by Bill Foley, chairman of Fidelity National Financial, which happens to be Secretary Zinke’s largest campaign contributor over the course of his career. Zinke then took a private plane to his home in Whitefish, Montana.
The night before, Zinke flew from Washington to Lake Tahoe for an event with the Rule of Law Defense Fund, a dark-money group sponsored by the Koch brothers which supports Republican attorneys general. According to the Secretary’s travel schedule, he was seated at a table with lobbyists from Koch Industries, the NRA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Center for Western Priorities issued the following statement from Media Director Aaron Weiss:
“Here's another case of a Trump administration official wining and dining with donors, lobbyists, and executives at the expense of taxpayers. Secretary Zinke's entire Nevada trip was a flimsy excuse for a political event in Lake Tahoe and a thank-you meeting with his biggest campaign bundler. Then he saddles taxpayers with the bill for a private plane when he could have easily flown commercial.”
JUNE 25, 2017:
6:35 am — Zinke flies from Washington to Reno with Interior staff
1:50–6:00 pm — Zinke spends an afternoon of personal time at Lake Tahoe
6:00 pm — Zinke attends Rule of Law Defense Fund dinner. At Zinke’s table: NRA lobbyists Randy Kozuch and Lacey Biles; Koch Industries lobbyist Allen Richardson; U.S. Chamber of Commerce VP Page Faulk
JUNE 26, 2017:
10:25 am — Zinke and staff fly from Reno to Las Vegas
2:00 pm–3:20 pm — Zinke holds photo op in Pahrump, Nevada
5:30–7:30 pm — Zinke attends dinner and gives motivational speech to Las Vegas Golden Knights NHL team, where he is introduced by team owner and major donor Bill Foley, Chairman of Fidelity National Financial
6:50 pm — Final commercial flight connecting to Whitefish (Delta 2140/1144) departs Las Vegas
8:30 pm — Having stayed with Foley past the departure time of the final commercial flight connecting to Whitefish, Zinke flies from Las Vegas to Whitefish on a private plane at taxpayer expense
For more information, visit westernpriorities.org. To speak with an expert on public lands, contact Aaron Weiss at 720-279-0019 or aaron@westernpriorities.org.
