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The Medical Minute: Stress tests - echo vs. nuclear

Your health care provider has ordered a stress test for your heart. No problem, you think; you’ve seen people walk on treadmills before. In fact, you used the one in your basement a few times, a couple of years ago. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The effect of occasional binge drinking on heart disease and mortality among moderate drinkers

Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease (IHD) and most studies have found an increase of coronary risk among binge drinkers.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physician's weight may influence obesity diagnosis and care

A patient's body mass index (BMI) may not be the only factor at play when a physician diagnoses a patient as obese. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the diagnosis ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How exercise helps you avoid a broken heart

Joseph Libonati, PhD, associate professor of nursing at Penn Nursing answer’s questions about how exercise betters your heart health. Dr. Libonati is a cardiac physiology expert who focuses on heart health and hypertension.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Finding the silent killer -- a biomarker test for atherosclerosis

Furring of the arteries, atherosclerosis, is a leading cause of death across the world. Atherosclerosis leads to peripheral arterial disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and heart attacks. However, atherosclerosis is a ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers discover new culprit in atherosclerosis

A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers identified a new culprit that leads to atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fat and cholesterol that hardens into plaque and narrows arteries. The research, published ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hospitals invest heavily in new heart attack care programs but fail to improve access

In a new study, researchers have found a 44 percent increase since 2001 in the number of hospitals that offer definitive emergency care to patients with heart attack, but only a 1 percent increase in access to that care. ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American first: A patient treated with a disappearing heart device

The interventional cardiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) used the world's first drug eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold to successfully treat a woman suffering from coronary artery disease. This landmark ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Promising and perilous? The ambivalent role of the CXCL12/ CXCR4 axis in heart repair

The chemokine CXCL12 acts as a chemical signal which mobilizes hematopoietic and other types of stem cells to leave the bone marrow and enter the circulation. Secretion of CXCL12 also guides these cells to sites at which ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Risk of disease partially set in womb, scientists say

Pregnant women sacrifice many of life's simple pleasures - caffeine, sushi, a glass of wine - in the hope that their baby will be born healthy. But according to a provocative new field of research, what happens during pregnancy ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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