A new gene therapy has been developed with the potential to treat heart patients with an injection instead of risky transplant surgery.
This is according to researchers at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex and Imperial College London.
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A new Canadian study has confirmed that a Bayer anti-bleeding drug Trasylol, used during heart surgery, considerably increased the risk of dying compared to less-expensive alternatives.
Canadian research found that people given Trasylol (also known by its generic name aprotinin) face a 53% increased risk of death.
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A new study shows that apples and apple juice are playing the same health league as the often-touted purple grapes and grape juice. The study was published in the April 2008 issue of Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.
Researcher Kelly Decorde from the Universite Montpelier in France was part of the European research team that found […]
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Women who have used Fosamax are nearly twice as likely to develop the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) than are those who have never used it, according to research from Group Health and the University of Washington published in the April 28 Archives of Internal Medicine.
Merck markets Fosamax, the most widely […]
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Dutch researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute have succeeded in growing large numbers of stem cells from adult human hearts into new heart muscle cells. A breakthrough in stem cell research. Until now, it was necessary to use embryonic stem cells to make this happen. The findings are published in the […]
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According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), chest compressions alone, or Hands-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), can save lives and can be used to help an adult who suddenly collapses.
The HSFC today supported a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Hormones produced by the heart to control both blood pressure and blood volume eliminate a wide range of cancers!
Researchers at the University of South Florida’s Cardiac Hormone Center, in Tampa, used four human cardiac peptide hormones to treat mice engineered to develop human pancreatic and breast cancer.
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Heart rate monitors - when accurate and used right - can tell you when to push yourself harder and when you need to back off.
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Celebrex, a popular arthritis drug, has been shown in laboratory studies to induce arrhythmia, or irregular beating of the heart.
Researchers at University at Buffalo conducted the studies over fruit flies and rats.
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Using drug-coated stents to unblock coronary arteries is safer and more effective than using uncoated stents in patients with complex heart disease.
Drug-coated stents also have a lower rate of repeat procedures in those patients.
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