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Easy-to-use blood thinners likely to replace Coumadin

Within a few years, a new generation of easy-to-use blood-thinning drugs will likely replace Coumadin for patients with irregular heartbeats who are at risk for stroke, according to a journal article by Loyola University ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Anemia may more than triple your risk of dying after a stroke

Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Powering pacemakers with heartbeat vibrations

Sick hearts may help to keep themselves beating longer with a device that could harvest energy from heartbeat-induced chest cavity vibrations.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ruthless boas know when to ditch their squeeze

Boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their quarry as they suffocate it, thus giving themselves the signal to know when the prey is dead, scientists say.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Middle-aged men with upper-normal blood pressure at risk for AF

Middle-aged men at the upper end of normal blood pressure had an elevated risk for atrial fibrillation later in life, according to new research in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atrial arrhythmias detected by pacemakers increase risk of stroke

An irregular heartbeat that you don't even feel but can be picked up by a pacemaker is associated with a significantly increased risk of stroke, says a new McMaster University study.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds warfarin underutilized in women

Dr. Rabab Mohsin, an internal medicine resident at the University of Kentucky, working with Dr. Alison Bailey of the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute, has discovered that the drug warfarin was underutilized in ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method for safer dosing of anticoagulants

Elderly people with atrial fibrillation are often treated with anticoagulants to thin the blood, but this medicine is hard to dose and patients have to have their blood tested regularly. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Philips launches personal app to measure heart rate and breathing rate

Today, Philips launches a personal App for iPad 2 that measures your heart rate and breathing rate remotely, simply by using the iPad 2 camera. This breakthrough technology allows people to measure heart and breathing rates ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Urgent need for research in the diagnosis of miscarriage

The current ultrasound test to diagnose miscarriage in early pregnancy is based on limited evidence, raising questions about its reliability, according to a new paper published by researchers at Queen Mary, University of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Loyola testing new device for treating Atrial Fibrillation

Loyola University Medical Center is testing a high-tech catheter device that's intended to improve outcomes of patients treated for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Freeze and desist: Disabling cardiac cells that can cause arrhythmia

Many patients are responding to a new, minimally invasive way of treating irregular heartbeats by freezing out the bad cells. Atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) is one such heart rhythm disorder, and it's the most common arrhythmia ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer model for testing heart-disease drugs developed

UC Davis researchers have developed an accurate computer model to test the effects of medications for arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, before they are used in patients.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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