Dying of a broken heart is possible—especially during the holidays! This fact came to light recently at a conference for primary-care physicians at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital. The conference was focused on “Takotsubo Syndrome”, a type of stress cardiomyopathy, or (literally) broken heart, which tends to attack older women suffering severe emotional turmoil. The typical […]
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Announcing a recent breakthrough for heart disease patients! Canadian scientists discovered that they can create life-giving patches from a patient’s own stem cells to repair damaged or diseased hearts. The findings provide a hopeful alternative for current stem cell therapies that use donated bone marrow stem cells, but risk being rejection by the receiving heart […]
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Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the HTWR, HIN.AU, a heart-pump for heart patients awaiting heart transplants. This is welcome news for more than five million heart patients in the U.S., 150,000 with severe heart failure, awaiting heart transplants with a limited supply of hearts available. The pump, created by HeartWare International Inc., […]
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Researchers report that stem cells donated by strangers provide a safe alternative to restoring heart tissue in heart attack cases. This breakthrough study proves that anyone’s cells can be used to treat damaged heart tissue, which means stem cells can be banked for off-the-shelf use, similar to blood banks with no blood or tissue matching […]
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Middle-aged men who have been taking a daily multivitamin for several years will not see a decreased risk of heart disease, according to a large, new study out of the US. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week, revealed that the longterm benefits of taking these vitamins is uncertain, […]
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A new University of Toronto study found that men whose parents were divorced are at increased risk of stroke, compared to men whose parents stayed together. The research found that men whose parents were divorced before they turned 18 were three times more likely to experience a stroke than men whose parents did not divorce. […]
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