Heart:
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Human Heart, Open Heart Surgery.
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Sep 1st, 2009
Levels of ambient carbon monoxide (CO) in the air well below accepted environmental standards are associated with an increased risk of hospital admissions for heart problems among the elderly.
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Sep 1st, 2009
Successfully teaching heart failure patients how to care for themselves is a low-risk, low-cost and effective treatment for these patients.
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Aug 31st, 2009
A new simple yet sensitive fetal heart monitor could save the lives of unborn infants at risk of preterm delivery, miscarriage, or death. The fetal monitoring system allows expectant mothers to transmit critical information about their infant to their physician and to themselves using a common personal computer.
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Aug 31st, 2009
Results from a phase II trial of an investigational intravenous drug designed to block the formation of blood clots, shows potential to reduce the risk of death, a second heart attack, or other coronary complications compared with the current standard of care in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
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Aug 20th, 2009
Most of the clinical displays of coronary artery disease can be treated by new formations of coronary arteries that replace the constricted or occluded coronary vessels, restoring blood flow to the heart.
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Aug 19th, 2009
Thinking “outside the medicine cabinet” is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure.
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Aug 15th, 2009
Researchers have been experimenting to find a way to make cardiac bypass surgery a thing of the past. Dr. Britta Hardy of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine had demonstrated how an injected protein might make blood vessels in the human heart regrow, eliminating the need for open heart surgery.
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Aug 12th, 2009
Reoccurring fainting spells, also known as syncope, could be an important symptom that can point to a more serious, underlying cardiovascular condition.
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Aug 11th, 2009
Tony Huesman, 52, of Washington Township, Ohio died Sunday August 9 from cancer. He was the longest-surviving single-graft heart transplant patient in the United States.
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Aug 8th, 2009
The associate medical examiner of Hillsborough, Florida has recently reported that Billy Mays had cocaine in his system when he died. Cocaine can stay in the system for several days. The official cause of death remains heart attack, however the cocaine use may have pushed the limit in a man that already suffered from chronic, untreated high blood pressure.
