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Scientists make strides toward fixing infant hearts

Researchers at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital have turned stem cells from amniotic fluid into cells that form blood vessels. Their success offers hope that such stem cells may be used to grow ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

British pharmacy chain announces roll-out of new smart pills loaded with microchip

(Medical Xpress) -- A new pharmaceutical program that many Britons might find literally hard to swallow, has been announced. Pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy has partnered with American technology firm Proteus ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

New sensation: Phones that let you feel the world

(AP) -- Sure, today's phones can deliver the sound of a heartbeat. But how would you like to actually feel the throbbing?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

How do you mend a broken heart?

Damaged heart tissue is not known for having much inherent capacity for repair. But now, scientists are closing in on signals that may be able to coax the heart into producing replacement cardiac muscle cells. Using a zebrafish ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Snipping key nerves may help life threatening heart rhythms

What do sweaty palms and abnormal heart rhythms have in common? Both can be initiated by the nervous system during adrenaline-driven "flight or fight" stress reaction when the body senses danger.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify key area that could sever communication between brain and heart in disease

A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fetal stem cells from placenta may help maternal heart recover from injury

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered the therapeutic benefit of fetal stem cells in helping the maternal heart recover after heart attack or other injury. The research, which marks a significant ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Medical Minute: Atrial Fibrillation -- What is It?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disturbance in the United States and affects 2 to 4 million Americans. It is usually a disease of aging, however it can affect people of all ages -- 1 percent of people ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Beating heart problems: How a combined group therapy helps depressed cardiac patients

Researchers from the Heart Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia, have demonstrated the benefits of the 8-week 'Beating Heart Problems' group programme in a randomised controlled trial. According to Principal Research Fellow ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows ability of new agent to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation

In the primary result from the largest double-blind study ever completed to assess a drug's effect in the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm abnormality, rivaroxaban, an anti-clotting ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Measuring oxidative stress can predict risk of atrial fibrillation

Measuring oxidative stress may help doctors predict the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, the most common heart beat irregularity. Research from Emory University School of Medicine has identified a connection between ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

More advantages found for new drug: study

New findings from a McMaster University-led study of a drug recently identified to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation have been published in the high-impact New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists convert skin cells to beating heart cells

Scripps Research Institute scientists have converted adult skin cells directly into beating heart cells efficiently without having to first go through the laborious process of generating embryonic-like stem cells. The powerful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death (w/ Video)

Australian researchers have come one step closer to understanding how the rhythm of the heartbeat is controlled and why many common drugs, including some antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Recycling pacemakers could save lives in needy countries

In the United States, pacemakers cost $10,000 to $50,000 to implant. About 100,000 Americans undergo the surgery each year. These life-saving devices, however, are mostly discarded in medical waste or buried with people when ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0