Items tagged with heart

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Lower Depression Risk Linked to Special Diet Saturday, October 10th, 2009 - 18:05:52 - Anuradha Menon Eating a Mediterranean-style diet — packed with fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, olive oil and fish — is good for your heart, many studies have... read more

Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage Saturday, July 25th, 2009 - 16:22:50 - Anuradha Menon By injecting a protein into mice with heart damage, researchers in Boston have shown that it's possible to cause adult heart-muscle cells to... read more

'New Way' to Repair Heart Damage Friday, July 24th, 2009 - 14:27:18 - Anuradha Menon Scientists say they have found a new way to mend damage to the heart. When cells turn into fully-formed adult heart muscle they stop dividing, and... read more

Early Heart Muscle Cells Identified Sunday, May 31st, 2009 - 16:08:47 - Ehud Rattner Researchers may have isolated embryonic mouse cells that are committed to becoming cardiac myocytes, the type of heart muscle cells that are capable... read more

Heart Disorder Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - 17:56:38 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City believe that they have made a breakthrough connection between atrial fibrillation, a... read more

'Beating' Heart Machine Expedites Research Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 18:46:00 - Anuradha Menon A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the... read more

Wearable Blood Pressure Sensor Thursday, April 9th, 2009 - 18:24:35 - Anuradha Menon High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important... read more

Getting a Charge Out of a Beating Heart Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 - 11:01:14 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have devised a way to use heartbeat and blood flow to generate electricity to charge military equipment, and maybe even your cell phone... read more

Anger Can Kill You Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - 10:44:12 - Iddo Genuth Don't let anger get to you, experts say, or it may very well kill you. This is the conclusion a group of researchers has come to, following a new... read more

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