Including more copper in your everyday diet could be good for your heart, according to scientists at the University of Louisville Medical Center and the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center. Their studies show that giving copper supplements to mice eased the stress on their over-worked hearts by preventing heart enlargement. The study will be published online on March 5th in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

The Department of Public Health (DPH) announced that the patient death rates for 56 Massachusetts heart surgeons will now be available online. The online data compares the mortality rates of individual surgeons performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery during the period from 2002-2004.

It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle even though it was grown in the lab. And it brings scientists another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts, or eventually growing an entirely new heart from just a spoonful of loose heart cells.

Interventional cardiologist urges panel to consider DES benefits when evaluating risks of late blood clot formation