Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a drug-delivery system that allows rapid response to heart attacks without... Read more
New sensor for early detection of heart attack in humans, providing results in just 1 minute. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Therefore, a fast and reliab... Read more
Researchers have discovered a way to stimulate muscle regrowth in the heart of a mouse, opening up prospects of new treatments for the 55,000 Australians who suffer heart attacks each year R... Read more
Researchers at the Montreal Heart Institute announced today results showing that patients with cardiovascular disease and the appropriate genetic background benefit greatly from the new medi... Read more
La Jolla Institute Discovery Points Up This Possibility Researcher finds autoimmune response contributes to inflammation in the artery wall Most people probably know that heart disease remai... Read more
The nanofibers and gels might someday allow doctors to simply “fix” damage that is currently impossible to treat Medicine’s recipe for keeping older people active and funct... Read more
Four days later, Chris woke up The moment she saw him, Judy Cox knew her son was dead. It was an October morning in 2008, and she had just stepped out the door to run an errand when s... Read more
Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today — with sutures — as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advanci... Read more
Overly-viscous blood can damage blood vessels and lead to heart attacks. Therefore, people who are at risk of heart attacks take medications such as Aspirin, in order to thin their blood. Su... Read more
Heart disease remains one the biggest killers in the Western world. When a heart attack or heart failure occurs, permanent damage often affects the heart, destroying live cells and leaving t... Read more