Heart Disease News and Research

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Breast cancer drug appears to protect cells against UV radiation, inflammation

Exemestane, a synthetic steroid drug widely prescribed to fight breast cancers that thrive on estrogens, not only inhibits the production of the hormone, but also appears to protect cells throughout the body against damage induced by UV radiation, inflammation and other assaults, according to results of research by Johns Hopkins scientists.

8 Nov 2013

Allied Healthcare Group commences first shipment of CardioCel into Europe

Allied Healthcare Group today announces it has commenced shipment of CardioCel into Europe after the Company received its first orders for the product from outside of Australia.

8 Nov 2013

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics applauds FDA’s efforts to reduce PHOs in processed foods

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics applauds the Food and Drug Administration's efforts, announced November 7, to reduce partially hydrogenated oils in processed foods.

8 Nov 2013

Children's Hospital Los Angeles opens new outpatient care center in Santa Monica

Children's Hospital Los Angeles opened the doors of its new outpatient care center in Santa Monica today. The pediatric medical facility, Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Santa Monica, will be staffed by 10 physicians who are Board-Certified in seven specialties and subspecialties, including hematology-oncology, medical genetics, neurology, orthopaedics, plastic and maxillofacial surgery, and urology.

8 Nov 2013

GHIT Fund makes new investments in potential treatments for malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, a new public health partnership that is bringing Japanese know-how and investment to the global fight against infectious diseases, announced today grants of US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on innovative drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease.

8 Nov 2013

Findings raise prospects for new therapies to protect heart from progressive disease

Some of the most commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of heart failure are beta-blockers and nitrates, which help to relax blood vessels and decrease the heart's workload. The drugs were thought to produce those effects through distinct molecular pathways, but according to a new study led by scientists at Temple University School of Medicine, both types of drugs may help the failing heart by counteracting the effects of an enzyme known as GRK2.

8 Nov 2013

Landmark clinical trial of artificial aortic heart valve shows positive results

Loyola University Medical Center is the only Chicago hospital participating in a landmark clinical trial of an artificial aortic heart valve that does not require open heart surgery.

From Medtronic 8 Nov 2013

Researchers able to regrow bone, hair, soft tissues and cartilage in mouse model

Young animals are known to repair their tissues effortlessly, but can this capacity be recaptured in adults? A new study from researchers at the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital suggests that it can. By reactivating a dormant gene called Lin28a, which is active in embryonic stem cells, researchers were able to regrow hair and repair cartilage, bone, skin and other soft tissues in a mouse model.

8 Nov 2013

Oral allergy syndrome sufferers with hypertension may be at increased risk for severe reaction

Oral allergy syndrome sufferers that take high blood pressure medications may experience extreme facial swelling and difficulty breathing the next time they bite into a juicy apple.

8 Nov 2013

Vitamin C can improve skeletal muscle fatigue in COPD patients

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—a health problem in which the lungs lose their inherent springiness, making it progressively harder to breathe—can have a dramatic effect on the ability to exercise and even perform simple activities of daily life because of the disease's fallout effects on skeletal muscles.

8 Nov 2013

Aerobic exercise may be superior to resistance exercise for obese teen girls

Obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the United States in the past 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The growing rate of childhood obesity is a major health concern since overweight and obese youth are at increased risk of developing several diseases once considered reserved for adults. These new pediatric diseases include type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which fat builds up in the liver, potentially impairing its function over time.

8 Nov 2013

GHIT Fund grants US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on vaccines against malaria

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), a new public health partnership that is bringing Japanese know-how and investment to the global fight against infectious diseases, announced today grants of US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on innovative drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease.

8 Nov 2013

UTHealth to host intensive two-week course on critical care

An intensive two-week course on critical care will be hosted by the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School.

8 Nov 2013

New coverage gaps, cost issues spur health law worries

News outlets look at the nuts and bolts of the health law's implementation, including a worry that coverage gaps will persist for some vulnerable people, as well as how the government pays for insurance subsidies and why some premium costs increase under the health law.

8 Nov 2013

Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat

Scientists at the University of Granada have disproved the old idea that chocolate is fattening, in a study reported this week in Nutrition. Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat—fat deposits all over the body—and central—abdominal—fat, independently of whether or not subjects are physically active, and of their diet.

8 Nov 2013

Rice U. researchers link von Willebrand factor to heart-valve calcium deposits

Heart valves calcify over time, and Rice University scientists are beginning to understand why. The Rice lab of bioengineer Jane Grande-Allen found through studies of pigs' heart valves that age plays a critical role in the valves' progressive hardening, and the problem may be due to the infiltration of a protein known as von Willebrand factor.

8 Nov 2013

Topera receives FDA clearance for FIRMap Catheter

Topera, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a novel mapping and targeting system for the identification of the sources that sustain complex cardiac arrhythmias, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the FIRMap Catheter.

7 Nov 2013

Bipolar mania and depression independently inherited

Bipolar mania and depression may be independently inherited in families, findings of a US study suggest.

7 Nov 2013

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

The statistic that you often hear is that 95% of diets fail, but in actual fact, emerging research is now showing that it’s around 70% of diets that fail. That means that around 30% of people who are losing weight are actually keeping it off. So we’re doing better now than we were doing in the past, but there’s still work to be done.

7 Nov 2013

Study finds few beneficial effects of metformin drug for cardiovascular disease in people without diabetes

Despite high expectations for the commonly used diabetes drug metformin to improve risk factors for heart disease in people without diabetes, few beneficial effects have been found in a randomised trial of patients with established cardiovascular disease, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

7 Nov 2013

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

Breast cancer drug appears to protect cells against UV radiation, inflammation

Allied Healthcare Group commences first shipment of CardioCel into Europe

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics applauds FDA’s efforts to reduce PHOs in processed foods

Children's Hospital Los Angeles opens new outpatient care center in Santa Monica

GHIT Fund makes new investments in potential treatments for malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease

Findings raise prospects for new therapies to protect heart from progressive disease

Landmark clinical trial of artificial aortic heart valve shows positive results

Researchers able to regrow bone, hair, soft tissues and cartilage in mouse model

Oral allergy syndrome sufferers with hypertension may be at increased risk for severe reaction

Vitamin C can improve skeletal muscle fatigue in COPD patients

Aerobic exercise may be superior to resistance exercise for obese teen girls

GHIT Fund grants US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on vaccines against malaria

UTHealth to host intensive two-week course on critical care

New coverage gaps, cost issues spur health law worries

Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat

Rice U. researchers link von Willebrand factor to heart-valve calcium deposits

Topera receives FDA clearance for FIRMap Catheter

Bipolar mania and depression independently inherited

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

Study finds few beneficial effects of metformin drug for cardiovascular disease in people without diabetes

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Heart Disease News and Research

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