Items tagged with heart

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Tiny Artery Sensor Measures Blood Pressure Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 - 16:50:36 - Anuradha Menon High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until... read more

Bleeding Hearts Revealed with New Scan Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 14:22:04 - Anuradha Menon The research shows that the amount of bleeding can indicate how damaged a person's heart is after a heart attack. The researchers, from the MRC... read more

Model Predicts How to Build a Better Stent Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 12:03:51 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary... read more

Umbilical Cord May Help Build Heart Valves Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon Children with heart defects may someday receive perfectly-matched new heart valves built using stem cells from their umbilical cord blood, according... read more

New Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease Monday, November 10th, 2008 - 15:42:17 - Ehud Rattner A team of international researchers – including scientists from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University – have discovered... read more

Tissue Engineering to Mend Broken Hearts Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 10:18:14 - Anuradha Menon Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. The idea is that living heart cells or stem... read more

First Fully Functional Artificial Heart Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 14:34:03 - Anuradha Menon For all the bad news in medicine today -- studies that cell phones might cause cancer, or that widely used flame retardants could have dire effects... read more

Can Grapes Fight High Blood Pressure? Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 16:18:32 - Anuradha Menon Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart... read more

Tiny Molecule Helps Control Blood-Vessels Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 - 14:41:17 - Anuradha Menon The development and repair of heart tissue and blood vessels is intimately tied to a tiny piece of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is found nowhere else... read more

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