Subway just got the "heart check" seal of approval from the American Heart Association...AND they're testing out new nachos made with Doritos. How healthy! More »Post from: Blisstree
A new study*out of Australia has Cathy fans and candy manufacturers buzzing; according to researchers, a daily dose of dark chocolate over the course of a decade is good for your heart! Unfortunately, if you get past the headlines, the findings aren't quite so exciting as they may sound. More...
My daughter turned 3 yesterday and has had the same Pediarician since birth and has been to all her well check and a few sick visits. She recently went for a evaluation for a speech delay at another hospital, while she was there another Peditrician did a physical and heard a heart murmur, she...
My daughter turned 3 yesterday and has had the same Pediarician since birth and has been to all her well check and a few sick visits. She recently went for a evaluation for a speech delay at another hospital, while she was there another Peditrician did a physical and heard a heart murmur, she...
Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests. Previous research has suggested that up to a quarter of patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin...
In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of...
A new study was released earlier this week that says HDL–otherwise known as "good cholesterol" by everyone from doctors to the CDC, because of its association with a lower risk of heart disease–may not do much to lower your risk of heart disease. This is particularly troublesome news for...
Nordic walking enables heart failure patients to exercise more intensely than walking without poles. The research was presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, 19-22 May, in Belgrade, Serbia. The Congress is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of...
Obese adolescents with no symptoms of heart disease already have heart damage, according to new research. The findings were presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, 19-22 May, in Belgrade, Serbia. The Congress is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European...
ACE2, a molecule that has been shown to prevent damage in the heart, is now proving to be protective of the major organs that are often damaged in diabetic patients. Gavin Oudit, a researcher with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and his colleagues at the University of Florida, found that...
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a rare, but important risk posed by the antibiotic azithromycin, commonly called a "Z-pack." The study found a 2.5-fold higher risk of cardiovascular death in the first five days of taking azithromycin when compared with another common antibiotic or no...
Hospitals that perform expensive, invasive cardiovascular procedures on a disproportionate number of patients are more costly for all heart failure patients, including those treated with noninvasive methods, according to a new Yale study. Most heart failure patients are cared for without the use...
Heart attack patients in North Carolina who were rushed directly to hospitals equipped to do percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) received treatment significantly faster than patients first taken to hospitals unequipped to perform PCI and then later transferred for treatment, according to...
What type of recovery is needed for a heart attack? How long is one in the hospital for one? Is there such a thing as a moderate heart attack? Is surgery always required for it? What type? I'm researching this for a paper I'm doing on someone who has had a moderate heart attack. I'd...
Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used zebrafish embryos and careful employment of a new technique that allows for up to 90 color labels on different...
It's hard to feel sorry for anyone who eats this--the double bypass burger, while also drinking alcohol and smoking, and then collapses and nearly dies. That's exactly what happened to a woman at the aptly-named Heart Attack Grill which prides itself on serving grossly unhealthy food to well...
Heart failure is the most common cause of death throughout the world, typically the result of chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. As a result, research efforts have focused on an array of approaches aimed at preventing and treating high blood pressure. Recently, Japanese...
Left-ventricular hyper-trabeculation (LVHT) - a feature of certain cardiomyopathies (chronic disease of the heart muscle) - has been found to be more common in black, male athletes according to a new study presented at the World Congress of Cardiology. A study of 692 athletes carried out in the...
Heart failure patients who take testosterone supplements may find they breathe better and are able to do more exercise, researchers from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, reported in Circulation Heart Failure. The authors had gathered data on four randomized human studies of...