Aromatic essential oils, the kind used in spas, massage parlors, and homes to create an environment of relaxation, might be doing you more bad than good. A study from Taiwan, published in the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology, reveals that those soothing aromas you love to use to unwind after a long day of work […]
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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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A new study from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark has shown that looking old might be bad for your health. The study lead, Dr. Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen and her researchers looked at 11,000 Danish people. They calculated the difference between their biological age and their chronological age. They looked closely at 3,400 participants for over 35 years […]
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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 study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that seniors with heart disease or diabetes have a greater risk of developing arrhythmia if they are even moderate drinkers, indicating that patients over 60 with a history of a heart attack, stroke, hardening of the arteries or Type 2 diabetes need to watch […]
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