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Revolutionary operation performed live for heart rhythm congress

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A revolutionary heart operation technique using cutting edge technology will be performed on Monday 20 October and broadcast live to delegates at the Heart Rhythm Congress 2008 taking place in Birmingham.





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Faster, better diagnosis for patients with heart rhythm disorders

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Patients with heart rhythm disorders can look forward to better and faster diagnosis and treatment thanks to the latest generation of electrophysiology equipment used this week for the first time in North America at the Peter ...


Big men more susceptible to atrial fibrillation

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Older men who were big during their 20s face an increased risk of suffering from atrial fibrillation, or abnormal heart rhythm. New research from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reveals that height ...


New medication brings hope of jet lag cure

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from Monash University, The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), Harvard Medical School and Vanda Pharmaceuticals has found a new drug with the potential to alleviate jet lag and sleep disorders caused ...


Researchers find new mechanism for circadian rhythm

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Molecules that may hold the key to new ways to fight cancer and other diseases have been found to play an important role in regulating circadian rhythm, says Liheng Shi, a researcher in Texas A&M's Department of Veterinary ...


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Learning from locusts: Study points toward new treatment for stroke and migraine

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A similarity in brain disturbance between insects and people suffering from migraines, stroke and epilepsy points the way toward new drug therapies to address these conditions.


Expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A call to action for more research to be undertaken into catheter ablation in the field of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) has been issued in a joint consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) a registered ...


Clock-shifts affect risk of heart attack

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent. ...


Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...


Study reveals new data on circadian rhythms

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fluctuations in light intensity allow restoring the regularity of circadian rhythms. This is the main conclusion of the work carried out by Javier Buceta, group leader of The SiMBioSys Group (Theoretical and In Silico Modelling ...


Faulty body clock may make kids bipolar

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Malfunctioning circadian clock genes may be responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry found four versions of the regulatory gene RORB that were associated with p ...



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