News - Powered by Yahoo NewsCalcium Supplements May Be Bad for Your Heart: Stud
WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Many older Americans take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss, but they may be significantly increasing their risk for a heart attack, a new study suggests.
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Can Stem Cells Repair Heart Tissue
People who suffer from heart failure could someday be able to use their own skin stem cells to regenerate their damaged heart tissue, according to a new Israeli study.
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Sorbent Therapeutics' CLP1001 Improves Heart Failure Symptoms In Phase 2 Clinical Stud
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BELGRADE, Serbia, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorbent Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for cardiovascular and renal diseases, presented positive ...
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Regional Systems to Treat Severe Heart Attack Increasin
WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- The number of regional care systems able to quickly identify, transfer if necessary, and treat patients experiencing the most severe form of heart attack is increasing, new research finds.
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Is Marathon Running Bad for the Heart
The death from heart attack of the ultramarathoner Micah True has raised awareness about the safety of marathon racing and training. But the science suggests that distance running and racing are extremely unlikely to kill you -- except when, in rare instances, they do.
Wed, 23 May 2012 08:17:17 -0700 -
A Heart Made of Face Parts; The Eating Depression Cycle Explaine
Discovered: A medical procedure that turns your face into your heart, why overeating causes depression and depression causes overeating, the fall of the Mayan empire explained, and men's mistakes count more.
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Obese Teens Can Have Heart Damage Without Showing Sign
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Heart damage can be present in obese teens who don't have any symptoms of heart disease, a small, preliminary study found.
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Scientists Turn Skin Cells into Healthy Heart Cell
Scientists Turn Skin Cells into Healthy Heart Cells
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Heart-Failure Patients? Cells May Be Used for Repai
Israeli scientists for the first time succeeded in transforming the skin cells of heart-failure patients into healthy heart-muscle cells, suggesting that it may be possible to repair the organ with a person?s own tissue.
Tue, 22 May 2012 16:38:47 -0700 -
Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscl
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition. The researchers, based in Haifa, Israel, said there were still many years of testing and refining ahead. But the results meant they might eventually be able to reprogram ...
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