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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
GE Healthcare announced the commercial release of a new pre-clinical computed tomography scanner specifically designed to accelerate research in the areas of cardiac disease and drug development. The GE eXplore CT 120 scanner is an all-new design based on years of research CT scanner experience. Using x-ray source technology derived from clinical systems, the eXplore CT 120 features 100 times the output...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
A US study that followed a random sample of men and women for 18 years showed that those with sleep apnea, where breathing pauses during sleep, had more than three times the risk of death from any cause compared to those who did not, and the risk went up when the condition was not treated.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Reflecting its ongoing commitment to patient safety and clinical research, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the initiation of the first investigational sites in the United States to participate in PROTECT,1 the company's global study comparing the Endeavor® and Cypher® drug-eluting stents on key safety metrics, including stent thrombosis - a rare but serious adverse event in which a blood clot...
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Heart disease is a general term that refers to a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions that affect one or more of the components of the heart. About 2 million of people of America are suffering from heart problems. Heart is the muscular fist sized organ that lies in [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Boehringer Ingelheim welcomed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)'s Final Appraisal Determination (FAD) which gives a draft recommendation that Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate), within its marketing authorisation, is recommended as an option for the primary prevention of venous thromboembolic events in adults who have undergone elective total hip or elective total knee replacement...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
With more than 6,000 cardiac deaths and a health expenditure exceeding â¬11 billion per annum, it is imperative that spending on health provides good value for money. Modern cardiac interventions (medical and surgical) are considered relatively expensive especially in the context of a public-funded health care system.
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Health (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Heart attack is one of the most dangerous diseases in the world when we of course talk about heart diseases. Among them i tis a number one in killing. The fact if we have heart attack depends on many factors. For example the person´s weight, diet, exercise, smoking and so on and also the [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
A research grant program that encourages "thinking outside the box" will allow a team of University of Iowa investigators to apply findings from heart research to the study of asthma. Specifically, the team has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Strategic Program for Asthma Research, known as SPAR, to see if an enzyme known to play a role in heart failure might also affect smooth muscle...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a year ended up with metabolically much younger hearts. The researchers also showed that by one metabolic measure, women benefited more than men from the training.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Scientists at The University of Manchester are striving to discover how the body's natural sugars can be used to create stem cell treatments for heart disease and nerve damage - thanks to a 370,000 pound funding boost. All cells that make up the tissues of the body - such as skin, liver, brain and blood - are surrounded by a layer of sugars that coat the cells.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Tanzanian teenagers are at high risk of suffering heart diseases (vardiovascular), a Dar es Salaam specialist has said.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
US scientists have successfully grown new, functioning blood vessels in mice by implanting them with progenitor cells extracted from human blood and bone marrow. They said this is an important step in developing new treatments for growing tissue.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A new study from Duke University Medical Center finds that patients treated solely with medications after suffering from chest pain, heart attack or coronary artery disease are more likely to die during the first year following their initial hospitalization.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Dr Charles Worringham of Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation said the unique 'Cardiomobile' monitoring system, developed by Gold Coast company Alive Technologies, was being further developed and trialled together with QUT under an ARC Linkage Grant.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
A severe complication of the Marfan syndrome is that the aorta may split and be torn apart. The patient can be protected if the syndrome is diagnosed and treated in good time. In the current edition of the Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[27]: 483-91), the human geneticist Mine Arslan-Kirchner from Hannover University Medical School and his coauthors present additional...
