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Sticky plaques building up on the walls of your blood vessels can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Now, a new nanoparticle infusion therapy has been found to break down these plaques safely in tests in pigs.Continue ReadingCategory: Heart Disease, Il… Continue reading Nanoparticle infusion therapy breaks down plaques in arteries
Smoking, obesity, and stress. They’re all common causes of damaging cardiac events. However, a just-published study says a new culprit should be added to the list of the risks that can hurt our hearts: constipation.Continue ReadingCategory: Health &… Continue reading Constipation linked to significantly elevated risk of cardiac events
For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in keeping people alive as they wait for heart transplants.Con… Continue reading Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
It turns out that blasting people with shockwaves during open-heart surgery is a really good idea. That’s what researchers found who used the technique to reactivate heart cells and improve the post-op lives of patients in a groundbreaking study.Contin… Continue reading Shockwave-shooting ‘space hairdryer’ regrows heart tissue in patients
Socializing is important for mental and physical health, improving mood and promoting a sense of belonging, security, and safety. Many studies have demonstrated the negative impacts that loneliness and social isolation can have on health, especially fo… Continue reading Close friends and family reduce heart disease risk by up to 30%
Even brief periods of anger caused by triggering memories can negatively impact our blood vessels’ ability to relax. That’s the finding of a new study that could have implications on how we look at heart attack and stroke risk.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Angry? Your blood vessels pay the price, new study demonstrates
Over the first half of the 20th century the world saw growing rates of heart disease mortality. From the 1920s to the 1960s more and more people were dying from heart attacks. It was described as an epidemic of heart disease. But in the mid-1960s heart… Continue reading Has COVID set us up for a major heart disease epidemic? It’s happened before
An effective drug to stop potentially fatal cell damage in heart attack and ischemic stroke is one step closer to reality, after the K’gari funnel-web spider venom molecule Hi1a met critical benchmarks on its road to human trials.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Deadly spider’s life-saving heart and stroke drug set for clinical trial
New research has linked the death of a sibling early in life to a 17% increased risk of cardiovascular disease, with most being early-onset. The findings highlight the profound impact of bereavement on heart health and the need to provide extra support… Continue reading Death of a sibling in childhood increases heart disease risk by 17%
Researchers have identified an efficient and cost-effective two-step screening strategy that, compared to the current one-step approach, more accurately identifies which type 2 diabetics need treatment to prevent life-threatening heart failure, even th… Continue reading Two-step screening better identifies diabetics at risk of heart failure