Archive for the 'Cardiology' Category
Molecules Involved In Touch And Other Mechanically Activated Systems Identified
Scripps Research Institute scientists have identified two proteins with potential to be important targets for research into a wide range of health problems, including pain, deafness, and cardiac and kidney dysfunction. The study was published in Science Express, the advanced, online edition of the journal Science…
How Bone-Marrow Stem Cells Hold Their ‘Breath’ In Low-Oxygen Environments
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in low-oxygen environments…
CHMP Meets To Discuss Avandia And Pandemrix, Europe
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) met on Wednesday 8 September to discuss the ongoing benefit-risk review of the rosiglitazone-containing medicines Avandia, Avandamet and Avaglim…
Link Between Chronic Stress And Heart Attack: Hair Provides Proof
Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors such as job, marital and financial problems have been linked to the increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease including heart attack…
TCT 2010 Late Breaking Trials To Have Impact On Practice Of Interventional Cardiology
Clinical trials in a variety of areas within interventional cardiovascular medicine that will be presented at TCT 2010 will directly affect the way that people with cardiovascular disease are treated. Breakthroughs in science and medical research, presented exclusively at TCT, will lead to new treatments that are minimally invasive and involve shorter recovery times…
Muscle Wasting In Cancer Does Not Spare The Heart
The wasting disease associated with some cancers that is typically seen affecting skeletal muscles can also cause significant damage to the heart, new research in mice suggests. Before now, cachexia, characterized by muscle wasting and dramatic weight loss, was believed to spare the heart…
Study Finds Higher Education Predicts Better Cardiovascular Health Outcomes In High-Income Countries, But Not In Low- And Middle-Income
In one of the first international studies to compare the link between formal education and heart disease and stroke, the incidence of these diseases and certain risk factors decreased as educational levels increased in high-income countries, but not in low- and middle-income countries…
Bristol Surgeon Receives Almost 120,000 Pounds For Pioneering Research Project
A trainee heart surgeon from the Bristol Heart Institute has received a grant of £117,166 from national heart charity, Heart Research UK, for a project to help prevent irreversible damage to the heart. Mr Simon Duggan, 32, has been awarded a Research Training Fellowship Grant for an innovative project that will investigate ‘reperfusion injury…
Explaining An Important Genetic Cardiovascular Risk Factor
New findings reported in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, appear to explain why people who carry specific and common versions of a single gene are more likely to have high cholesterol and to suffer a heart attack. Studies in mice show that the gene, known as sortilin (SORT1), controls the release of LDL (a.k.a…
Using Lower-Dose Heparin During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Does Not Appear To Reduce The Risk Of Major Bleeding
Patients with acute coronary syndromes initially treated with the anticoagulant fondaparinux who underwent a coronary procedure (such as balloon angioplasty) and received a lower dose of the anticoagulant heparin during the procedure did not have a reduced rate of major bleeding and vascular access site complications, according to a study that will appear in the September 22 issue of JAMA…
