Respiratory diseases linked with high blood pressure in lungs
MU researcher examines underlying conditions causing pulmonary hypertensionCredit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - Pulmonary hypertension is a type of ...
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New study may have the reason why heart medication gives muscle pain
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (October 15, 2019) - A study from McMaster University has found a potential mechanism explaining ...
Heart attack registry to provide new insight into STEMI occurrence, treatment in India
This is the first prospective cohort study of this magnitude in the region and is already providing unique data about ...
UA research shows drug can extend survival rates for heart failure patients
Credit: UA College of Medicine -- Phoenix PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix ...
Developing electrically active materials to repair damaged hearts
Scientists are developing new materials that can both conduct electricity and repair heart muscle damaged during a heart attackCredit: Michael ...
How effective is body cooling in patients that experience cardiac arrest?
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - While body temperature cooling is not a new treatment tactic for patients who ...
WVU researchers study link between low birth weight and cardiovascular risk
Credit: Greg Ellis/West Virginia University Low birth weight is linked not only to poor health outcomes at birth but also ...
Protein associated with many diseases fully visualized for first time
New drugs could be inspired by understanding how P2X7 protein receptor worksCredit: Oregon Health & Science University For the first ...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...
Physical activity and good fitness improve cardiac regulation in children
Credit: Dr. Aapo Veijalainen, University of Eastern Finland A recent Finnish study showed that more physically active and fit children ...
Skin-cells-turned-to-heart-cells help unravel genetic underpinnings of cardiac function
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Genome-wide association studies have uncovered more than 500 genetic variants linked to heart function, ...
Simple cardiac risk score can predict problems with blood flow in the brain
Credit: McMaster University HAMILTON, CANADA (Sept. 30, 2019) - A simple cardiac risk score can indicate who may have carotid ...
Artificial intelligence improves biomedical imaging
Credit: ETH Zurich / Daniel Razansky Scientists at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have used machine learning methods ...
Wrist-worn step trackers accurate in predicting patient health outcomes
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Determining how far patients with pulmonary disease can walk in six minutes has long been an effective ...
Additional heart artery stenting reduces risk of future heart attacks
Credit: The University of Sheffield Research shows that patients requiring emergency heart attack treatment also benefit from further intervention to ...
New findings enable more heart donations
Credit: Photo by Jonathan Moonen There is a risk of every fourth heart examined for possible donation being dismissed as ...
Teens share stories to deter other students from using tobacco
Credit: UTHealth An innovative strategy called Teens Against Tobacco Use showed promise as an effective strategy to deter tobacco use ...
Penn State researchers receive grant to explore novel method of anticoagulation
Credit: Penn State Two Penn State biomedical engineering faculty members have received a two-year, $200,000 grant from the American Heart ...
Mummy study: Heart disease was bigger issue for human ancestors than initially thought
Credit: Photo by Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth A new imaging study of the mummified arteries of people who lived thousands of years ...
A bathroom scale could monitor millions with heart failure
Credit: Creative Commons by Scientificanimations.com (Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) "Good morning. Bill. Please. Step onto the scale. Touch the metal ...