…heart, weakened by one, or a series of heart attacks, struggles to pump blood around the body. In the most severe cases, the lungs ‘drown’ in fluid. Treatments range from drugs to transplants but with 40% of those affected dying within a year of diagnosis, heart failure has a worse survival rate than many cancers. Doctors and scientists around the world are trying to use stem cells – “blank” cells…
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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is associated with a small but consistent increased risk of experiencing a first coronary heart disease event, such as a heart attack.” The researchers said eliminating job strain would prevent 3.4% of those cases, whereas there would be a 36% reduction if everyone stopped smoking. Prof. Mika Kivimaki said the evidence of a direct effect of job strain on the heart was mixed. He said job str…
Sep 16 2012 | Posted in
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…m of researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed the issue in unprecedented detail in order to help patients make an informed choice. The group investigated more than 353,000 patient records from 639 separate clinical trials to assess the impact of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. They looked at high-dose prescriptions levels, rather than over-the-counter pain relief, of 150 mg diclofen…
May 31 2013 | Posted in
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Read More » …rt’s ability to pump – the left ventricle ejection fraction: the percentage of blood pumped out of the left ventricle. Prof. Anthony Mathur, who is coordinating a stem cell trial involving 3,000 heart attack patients, said that even if the study found an increase in ejection fraction then it would be the source of much debate. He argued that as it was a proof-of-concept study, with a s…
According to specialists, the death of a loved one makes people up to 21 times more likely to suffer a heart attack within a day of the loss. Cardiologists also say that during the first week of bereavement, the risk is almost 6 times higher than normal. The risk slowly declines during the month that follows, a study found. Doctors are warning people of the dangers, especially for those closest t…
…so suffering from hypoplastic right heart syndrome, where only the left side of the heart has developed properly. Leighann Marquiss, who lives with husband Henry, 34, and their other children Natalie, 7, and Ainsley, 5, in Pennsylvania, USA, said: “All the odds were stacked against him. We knew that it was a miracle that he had been born alive with his heart outside his body, but then to have anot…
Feb 19 2012 | Posted in
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A heard of grieving elephants gathers round the lifeless body of Lola, a three-month-old calf, after she died of a heart defect. Lola was due to receive groundbreaking surgery for her condition but passed away during a preliminary scan. Keepers at Munich’s Hellabrunn Zoo decided to return Lola’s body to the enclosure so mother Panang, 22, could say her goodbyes in peace. Afterwards the rest…
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Read More » A case study reports that a man with two hearts – one his own, one a donor heart- was resuscitated via a defibrillator when both organs developed irregular heart rhythms. The case study was published online recently in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine and explains how the life-saving measures used in 2010 saved a 71-year-old who received the donor heart in 2003. The patient had also…
…reach a point of diminishing returns.” Government guidelines recommend adults take aerobic exercise five times a week for 30 minutes or more for maximum health benefits. Children should have at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a day, including taking part in sports, brisk walking and running. Aerobic exercise is achieved through sports such as jogging, running, cycling, tennis an…
Jun 4 2012 | Posted in
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…about what types of food they ate in a typical week and how that food was prepared and cooked. None of the adults had any sign of heart disease at the start of the 11-year study, but by the end of it 606 heart disease events and 1,134 deaths had occurred. When the researchers looked at these heart events in detail, they could find no link with fried food in the diet. This, they believe, is down t…
A new Nature Genetics report says that scientists may be closer to understanding how genes can influence serious heart conditions. The failure to turn off a specific gene at the right time in an embryo’s development could mean illness later in life. Mice in which the gene was left active were born apparently healthy, but suffered heart muscle problems later. A heart charity said it might on…
Dennis Hennis from New Jersey is making a quick recovery after accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10 cm) nail into his heart. Dennis Hennis, a 52-year-old self-employed builder, was working on his neighbor’s roof when his nail gun jammed and he tried to clear it. The nail pierced the right side of his heart and he went into cardiac arrest. His surgeon credited Dennis Hennis’ recovery to…
Apr 7 2012 | Posted in
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…t 2:00 a.m. Friday in his Los Angeles area home. The website reports Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth revived The Green Mile star by performing CPR. The former The Apprentice star, who has been dating the 54-year-old actor since 2010, is understood to be by his bedside in an intensive care unit. Her representative Priscilla Clarke confirmed Michael Clarke Duncan was hospitalized today but did not prov…
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Israeli scientists say they have managed to turn patients’ own skin cells into healthy heart muscle in the lab. Ultimately they hope this stem cell therapy could be used to treat heart failure patients. As the transplanted cells are from the individual patient this could avoid the problem of tissue rejection, they told the European Heart Journal. Early tests in animals proved promising but…
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney is accused of favoritism over his heart surgery, as he was too old to receive a heart transplant on Friday. Critics are complaining that 71-year-old Dick Cheney was given special consideration because of his position. Though they do not think that Dick Cheney was moved up the transplant list, he was given the organ that could have gone to thousands of younger…
A new research has found that getting enough exercise in midlife will help protect your heart. Even those who make the switch in their late 40s and 50s can still benefit, the study of over 4,000 people suggests. And it need not be hard toil in a gym – gardening and brisk walks count towards the required 2.5 hours of moderate activity per week, say experts. But more work is needed since the…
Aug 14 2012 | Posted in
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Experts found that men can inherit heart disease from their father after they have tracked the condition to the Y chromosome that dads pass to sons. By studying the DNA of over 3,000 men, scientists found a particular version of the sex chromosome increases the risk of coronary artery disease by 50%. The risk it confers is in addition to other heart risk factors like cholesterol, The Lancet repor…
then every year subsequently filled in surveys about any new medical diagnoses. The study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, found that 1,444 men developed heart failure which was about 7% of the total. Men who were 6 ft (1.8 meters) or over were 24% less likely to report having heart failure than those who were 5ft 8 (1.72 meters) or smaller. This was after their age and weight, a…
Sage Stallone, son of actor Sylvester Stallone, died from natural causes due to a heart condition, the Los Angeles County Coroner has ruled. Sage Stallone was found dead at his Hollywood home by an employee and a relative on 13 July. Bottles of prescription pills were found but it was not clear if they were connected with his death. Officials said on Thursday that the 36-year-old died due to a co…
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A Japanese study of nearly 37,000 people, published in the online journal BMJ Open, said balding men were 32% more likely to have coronary heart disease. However, the Japanese researchers said the risks were less than for smoking or obesity. A shifting hairline is a fact of life for many men. Half have thinning hair by their 50s and 80% have some hair loss by the age of 70. A Japanese study of n…
Apr 4 2013 | Posted in
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Jakub Halik, a Czech father of one who survived for more than six months without a real heart, has died at the age of 37. Jakub Halik had his heart replaced with two mechanical pumps in pioneering surgery last April after an aggressive cancerous tumor was found. Doctors say his death was caused by liver failure, and not the artificial heart itself. Jakub Halik, a former firefighter, was waiting o…
British doctors have saved Ronald Aldom’s life using an unconventional treatment – a shot of neat alcohol into the arteries supplying his heart. Ronald Aldom, 77, from Portishead near Bristol, had an unusual heart rhythm called ventricular tachychardia that can be fatal if left unchecked. Medics had tried to treat it using standard methods but with no success. They resorted to using p…
Dec 25 2012 | Posted in
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…appears to be more effective for women than men.” However, two thirds of Britons never eat oily fish even though official guidelines recommend its consumption at least once a week. In the study around 60 people, half men and women, were given test drinks containing either saturated fats or a combination with omega 3 fish oils, equivalent to a 200 g portion of oily fish. Imaging was used to check t…
Oct 13 2012 | Posted in
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