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Heart attacks: The tipping point

Heart attacks: The tipping point

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Twenty percent of American deaths each year are caused by heart attack or angina, sometimes without any warning.





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Probably wireless

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) used to detect and report events including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires and for military surveillance and antiterrorist activities are prone to subterfuge. In the International Jo ...


Back-to-School Means Beware of Asthma for Some

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asthma is a leading cause of death and disability in children younger than 18 years old, and is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in school-age children. Since children spend up to 30 percent of ...


A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Like the sensitive seismographs that can pick up tremors of impending earthquakes long before they strike, a similar invention from Tel Aviv University researchers may change the face of molecular biology.


Jefferson cardiologists fix broken heart

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.


Bottling up work woes increases heart risk: study

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who bottle up frustrations about unfair treatment at work are twice as likely to have a heart attack, a study published in Britain on Tuesday suggests.


Elevated biomarkers lead to diminished quality of life in heart attack patients post-discharge

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many heart attack patients have high levels of cardiac biomarkers in the blood for several months after leaving the hospital, with more shortness of breath and chest pain, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.


Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A new study suggests that a type of "super X-ray" can give a faster, cheaper way to tell whether a chest pain sufferer is really having a heart attack.


Could vitamin D save us from radiation?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body's main protections against damage from low levels of ...


Protein may predict heart attack and early death, not stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People with high levels of a protein called C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker for inflammation in the blood, may be at higher risk for heart attack and death but not stroke, according to a study published in the October ...


Dentists can help to identify patients at risk of a heart attack

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dentists can help to identify patients who are in danger of dying of a heart attack or stroke, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. Thanks to the study, six men who thought they were completely healthy were able ...



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