Implanting embryonic cardiac cells in heart prevents arrhythmias
By Armen Hareyan G+ Dec 5 2007 - 3:33pm
Researchers implant embryonic cells into damaged hearts and prevent life-threatening heart arrhythmias.
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Stem-Cell Transplant Increases Oxygen In Damaged Heart
By Armen Hareyan G+ Dec 4 2007 - 1:14am
Scientists have determined that stem cells transplanted into a damaged heart can increase the presence of oxygen at the site of injury.
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New Heart Test To Save Time, Money, Lives
By Armen Hareyan G+ Dec 1 2007 - 12:03pm
A new test could give doctors a head start in diagnosing those patients most likely to suffer a heart attack.
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Amarin Commences First Clinical Trial In Cardiovascular Program
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 30 2007 - 12:54am
New study is significant because it marks the commencement of Amarin's cardiovascular development program and potentially addresses a major medical need.
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Nine Questions To Protect Your Heart Before Having Surgery
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 29 2007 - 9:11am
Most people with heart disease have other ailments, including some that require surgery.
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FDA To Review Abbott's XIENCE Drug Eluting Heart Stent
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 27 2007 - 5:41pm
Abbott to Present Comprehensive Safety and Efficacy Data on XIENCE V Drug Eluting Heart Stent to FDA Advisory Committee on November 29.
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Framingham Heart Study Provides Important Data
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 27 2007 - 1:46pm
Sixty years ago, Americans smoked, drank and ate too much of the wrong things, then died of heart disease and stroke.
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Patient Receives Heart Bypass Without Opening Chest
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 17 2007 - 6:23am
62-year-old Luther Roden is the first in east Texas to benefit from a heart bypass procedure done totally endoscopically using the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System.
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C-Port xA, Flex A Anastomosis Produce Excellent Patency In Off-Pump Bypass Surgery
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 15 2007 - 1:13am
Cardica presented data evaluating the patency, or openness, of bypass grafts connecting the internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery using the C-Port xA or Flex A Distal Anastomosis Systems.
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Deer Hunting Can Strain Hearts
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 15 2007 - 12:49am
Researchers have identified another hunting danger - the hidden danger of a heart attack among men with risk factors and known heart disease.
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Mitochondria Send Death Signal To Cardiac Cells
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 13 2007 - 1:45am
Scientists have determined how cardiac cells die just as emergency treatments restore blood flow to a heart in distress.
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Synvista Initiates Phase 2 Study With Alagebrium For Chronic Heart Failure
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 13 2007 - 1:40am
Synvista Therapeutics announced dosing of the first patient in BENEFICIAL trial, a novel compound designed to act as an AGE-cross-link breaker, in patients with chronic heart failure.
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Major Boost For Cardiac Services In Wales
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 12 2007 - 2:22am
The improvement of services for cardiac patients in Wales received a major boost.
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Vernakalant Hydrochloride Is Effective In Conversion To Normal Heart Rhythm
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 8 2007 - 1:57am
Investigational agent of Astellas Pharma US vernakalant hydrochloride increased conversion to normal heart rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Do Women Fare Worse With Some Heart Devices?
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 7 2007 - 1:00pm
Women with implantable cardioverter defibrillators fare less well than their male counterparts.
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Aggressively Treating Cardiac Risk Factors May Reverse Ischemia
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 27 2007 - 3:13am
People with diabetes who have asymptomatic heart disease may be able to vastly improve the flow of blood to their hearts without surgical intervention.
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Medtronic Recalls Heart Device
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 22 2007 - 5:36am
Some University of Michigan Health System pediatric and adult heart patients are affected by a Medtronic heart device recall.
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Nile Therapeutics Announces Positive Phase Of Trial For Heart Failure Treatment
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 12 2007 - 2:04am
Nile Therapeutics announced results from a Phase 1a clinical study of CD-NP, Nile's selective NPR-B agonist being developed for the treatment of heart failure. The results of this study will be included in the Company's presentation today at the BIO Investor Forum in San Francisco, CA.
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Vernakalant Hydrochloride Injection Increases Conversion To Normal Heart Rhythm
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 11 2007 - 1:52am
Astellas Pharma announced that the investigational agent vernakalant hydrochloride increased conversion to normal heart rhythm.
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Have A Heart-Healthy Holiday
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 10 2007 - 1:18am
American Heart Association's free online grocery list builder to create a heart-healthy shopping list filled with products bearing the heart-check mark.
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Families, Communities Unite To Promote Healthy Hearts
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 10 2007 - 12:40am
World Heart Day urges parents to set a good example and ensure that children adopt healthy-heart habits early in life.
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Panic Attacks Associated With Risk Of Cardiovascular Events, Death
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 9 2007 - 1:58am
Older women who experience at least one full-blown panic attack may have an increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke and an increased risk of death in the next five years.
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Novel Approach To Improving Cardiovascular Care
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 8 2007 - 1:46am
Thousands of heart patients in the Greater New York region will receive top quality, comprehensive cardiac care in an innovative cardiovascular program.
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Women, Blacks Less Likely To Receive Implantable Heart Devices
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 3 2007 - 1:53pm
Women and blacks are less likely than white men to receive implantable heart defibrillators.
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Major gender gap in use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 2 2007 - 9:59pm
Clinical trials show that ICDs (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) save lives, so the sex difference in treatment rates is worrisome.
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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Underused In Women
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 2 2007 - 9:51pm
Many Americans hospitalized for heart failure are coming up short when it comes to getting the therapy they need - especially women and minorities.
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Testing Of Modules For Holter, Intra-Cardiac Monitor Successfully Completed
By Armen Hareyan G+ Oct 2 2007 - 2:41am
Signalife has completed in-house testing and technological evaluation of various new modules for its holter and intra- cardiac monitors - items.
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Study To Assess Impact Of Heart, Stroke Research
By Armen Hareyan G+ Sep 28 2007 - 12:24am
HSFC and CIHR launched of a groundbreaking new international study to assess the impact of heart and stroke (cardiovascular) research.
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The Mysterious Human Heart - How we cope with coronary diseases
By Armen Hareyan G+ Sep 24 2007 - 2:23pm
A new PBS series from filmmaker David Grubin - The Mysterious Human Heart - that explores the body's perpetual motion machine and how we cope with coronary diseases, to premier October 15, 2007.
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How Statins Benefit Heart Patients
By Armen Hareyan G+ Sep 21 2007 - 4:44am
A research is challenging conventional thinking on how the cholesterol-reducing drugs statins benefit heart patients.
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