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Older patients with 1 type of heart failure may receive little or no benefit from drugs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People over 80 years of age suffering from a certain type of heart failure do not appear to benefit from most commonly prescribed heart medications, according to a study conducted at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and published ...





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New hope for cancer comes straight from the heart

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today. In the Dec. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 16, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have taken the dangerous guesswork out of dosing a lifesaving medication for congestive heart failure.


And the beat goes on: Scientists jump-start the heart by gene transfer

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota show in a research report published online in the FASEB Journal that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart's ability to contract properly. In additi ...


Researchers decipher the shape of the sodium/potassium ion pump

Researchers decipher the shape of the sodium/potassium ion pump

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created Oct 25, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Proteins studding the surface of cell membranes are vital to the cell, transmitting signals and maintaining equilibrium by moving charged molecules — ions — from one side to the other. Some of these proteins ...



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