Heart:
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Human Heart, Open Heart Surgery.
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Aug 5th, 2009
As the debate over using stem cells for medical research continues at the national level, researchers are studying the effectiveness of using non-embryonic stem cells to regenerate heart muscle to improve outcomes for patients.
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Aug 5th, 2009
Cooling unconscious cardiac arrest survivors can increase survival and has a cost effectiveness comparable to other widely accepted treatments in modern health care.
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Jul 31st, 2009
Schools with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have better cardiac survival rates. This important fact is true for both students and nonstudents who may have a sudden cardiac arrest at a school event.
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Jul 29th, 2009
E-mail, search engines, smart phones and other new technologies that can disseminate new medical information quickly led to an almost immediate change in clinical practice for drug-eluting stents.
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Jul 28th, 2009
To relieve the crushing pain caused by blockages in the heart, interventional cardiologists perform a variety of procedures, called percutaneous coronary interventions, to restore blood flow in diseased arteries. But when it comes to choosing a catheter to reach those trouble spots in the arteries, bigger is not better.
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Jul 28th, 2009
The appropriate placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) is critical to optimize their use in public places.
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Jul 27th, 2009
Michael Jones, 66, has benefited from the experimental stem cell treatment of his heart. The stem cell heart treatment is part of an FDA approved Phase I clinical trial being conducted by University of Louisville physicians at Jewish Hospital.
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Jul 25th, 2009
New York hospitals continue to have low mortality rates associated with cardiac surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions (angioplasty).
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Jul 24th, 2009
Men who followed a number of healthy lifestyle factors may reduce their risk of heart failure to one in ten.
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Jul 23rd, 2009
Stem cells isolated from brown fat tissue grew into beating cells in lab dishes and partially or fully reversed an electrical problem in the hearts of half of the mice in which they were implanted.
