Posts Tagged ‘heart failure’
Stem cells safely heal damaged hearts
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Stem cells can be used safely to repair damaged heart muscle, reducing scar tissue and improving quality of life for patients with chronic heart failure. Continue…
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:33 - 1 Comment
Health & Medicine - Nov 7, 2012 11:20 - 0 Comments
Re-sync the beat to manage ‘heart block’
U. BUFFALO (US) — Heart failure patients with a condition called “heart block” get significant benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy, according to the results of an eight-year-long clinical trial. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 31, 2012 15:09 - 5 Comments
After heart failure, treat depression, too
UC DAVIS / DUKE (US) — Controlling depression in patients with heart failure improves health status, social functioning, and quality of life, research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 8, 2011 12:48 - 0 Comments
Heart therapy proves best for women
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A new therapy is significantly more effective—as much as double in some cases—in preventing heart failure in women than in men. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 1, 2010 13:42 - 0 Comments
Health ABCs reduce hospitalizations
EMORY (US) — Being able to read and understand medical terms may keep a patient with heart failure out of the hospital. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 22, 2010 10:27 - 1 Comment
Venom abates bypass graft failure
U. LEEDS (UK) — A toxin found in the venom of the Central American bark scorpion is at least 100 times more potent than any other known compound at preventing the most common cause of heart bypass graft failure. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 2, 2010 14:03 - 0 Comments
Structural defects precede heart failure
U. IOWA (US)—The disruption of a structural component in heart muscle cells associated with heart failure appears to occur even before heart function starts to decline, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 9, 2010 9:17 - 0 Comments
Newly found proteins regulate blood pressure
U. PITTSBURGH (US)—Key players have been identified in a little-known biochemical pathway that appears to regulate blood pressure. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 2, 2009 11:53 - 2 Comments
Paired therapy prevents heart failure
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Results from the largest clinical trial of its kind could change the way doctors treat cardiac patients. Heart failure risk drops by more than 40 percent when doctors couple an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD) with an additional implant that resynchronizes the heartbeat. (more…)
