Dr. Mushabbar Syed has been named director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Loyola University Health System. Loyola offers cardiovascular patients state-of-the-art echocardiography and nuclear imaging, along with newer imaging technologies including CT and MRI scans. Loyola is buying a 1.5 Tesla...
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation has announced that in addition to the previously announced late breaking clinical trials and first reports, a series of additional featured trials will be presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 scientific symposium. These...
I want to MMA about two weeks ago. I'm going back in a week. I ran out of gas 15 minutes in. If I work on my cardio for a week could I maybe stretch it to 30 minutes?
The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), the leading international professional society dedicated to research, education and clinical excellence in cardiovascular computed tomography (CT), has named Dr. Raman Dusaj and Dr. Thomas Smith the recipients of the fourth annual Young...
The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2010, the world's biggest international meeting in Cardiology will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 28 August to 1 September 2010. The spotlight of ESC Congress 2010 will be coronary artery disease (CAD), 'from genes to outcome', which the...
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) - the top-rated medical imaging journal worldwide - has published Multimodality Molecular Imaging of the Cardiovascular System, presenting the state of the art of cardiovascular molecular imaging and discussing opportunities and challenges in advancing...
VOA News Interviews CSIS Global Health Policy Center Director About Smart Global Health Policy Report VOA News features an interview with J. Stephen Morrison, the director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, about the final report by the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health...
Patients who are at high risk of a cardiovascular event are substantially undertreated, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Emma Heeley, Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for International Health, and her co-authors conducted a...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year grant of more than $1.2 million to The Scripps Research Institute to develop a series of high-throughput screening tests that will help speed the discovery of potential small molecule therapies for breast cancer and cardiovascular...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year grant of more than $1.2 million to The Scripps Research Institute to develop a series of high-throughput screening tests that will help speed the discovery of potential small molecule therapies for breast cancer and cardiovascular...
Imaging is at the heart of diagnostic procedures in cardiology. The idea of publishing an ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging which accumulates the expertise of European cardiovascular imagers, is therefore long awaited. The textbook is also unique in that it is written with a patient rather...
Springer and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) have founded a new journal Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (CVET). CVET is a forum for research on all aspects of cardiovascular physiology and medical treatment. The first issue of the new quarterly journal will appear in March...
I use to be someone who was very fit cardio wise. I was awesome at the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and cross country, but then high school stuff kind of got in the way and I progressively stopped doing sports. I can't even run 100m without being puffed out. Luckily for me I have a very fast...
Treadmill or Exercise Bike? I have Just Joined a gym, and my mum wants to as well but cant afford the on going payments. she is looking at buying a treadmill or exercise bike for us both to use at home, but we would like to know which one helps more with cardiovascular and general fitness?