heart health

Fresh Garlic Better For Heart Than Dried

harminka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:33:47 -0500

A new study reports what scientists term the first scientific evidence that freshly crushed garlic has more potent heart-healthy effects than dried garlic. Scheduled for the Aug. 12 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it also challenges the widespread belief that most of garlic's benefits are due to its rich array of antioxidants.

Dying Boy Wishes to See Guatemalan Family One Last Time

Michael Santo — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:51:03 -0500

Ask his doctors and nurses. Juan Gonzales is different than most being treated in a hospital. He is in Georgia's Redmond Regional Medical Center. And his story is a sad one.

Valve implantation on the beating heart

harminka — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:56:35 -0500

Transcatheter valve implantation is a newly developed technique for the curative treatment of high-grade aortic stenosis. It is likely to be of benefit especially to elderly, multimorbid patients for whom the risk of open heart surgery would be too great.

Angry heart can lead to sudden death

harminka — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:41:07 -0600

Before flying off the handle the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, consider the latest research from Yale School of Medicine researchers that links changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests, which are blamed for 400,000 deaths annually.

Get personal to improve heart health

harminka — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:52:05 -0600

Scare tactics may not be necessary when trying to get patients at risk of heart disease to change their diet or behaviour, a new study has found. Instead, doctors and nurses should be aware of the stage of life their patients are at, and offer them very specific and targeted advice.

Bleeding hearts revealed with new scan

harminka — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:37:46 -0600

Images that for the first time show bleeding inside the heart after people have suffered a heart attack have been captured by scientists, in a new study published today in the journal Radiology.

Chances of surviving cardiac arrest depend on where patients are treated

harminka — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:04:52 -0600

Efforts to fight the toll of cardiac arrest have typically focused on pre-hospital factors -- bystander CPR education and improvement, public defibrillation programs, and quicker EMS response.

New appropriate use criteria guide treatment of patients with heart blockage

harminka — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:21:44 -0600

If you're committed to fitness, the decision to climb a couple of flights of stairs rather than take the elevator is clear. But if you develop chest pain on the way up, deciding how to treat the symptoms of clogged arteries in your heart is much more complicated.

Viagra's Other Talents For Preventing Heart Failure

harminka — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:12:12 -0600

Johns Hopkins and other researchers report what is believed to be the first direct evidence in lab animals that the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil (also known as Viagra) amplifies the effects of a heart-protective protein.

Gene therapy reversed heart damage in heart failure

harminka — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:37:01 -0600

Long-term gene therapy resulted in improved cardiac function and reversed deterioration of the heart in rats with heart failure, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Translational Medicine. The study was published online in Circulation.

Heart regenerates after infarction

harminka — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:49:15 -0600

Up until today scientists assumed that the adult heart is unable to regenerate.

New treatment approach for heart attacks

harminka — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:26:12 -0600

Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage caused, according to a study published today in the journal Cardiovascular Research.