http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Heart failure patients who regularly exercise fare better and feel better about their lives than do similar patients who do not work out on a regular basis, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. http://phys.org/news158345550.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:58 EST news158345550 (PhysOrg.com) -- By using the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960, researchers have determined that cells in the human heart develop into adulthood. http://phys.org/news157903182.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:00:07 EST news157903182 Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist device were reported at the 58th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30. http://phys.org/news157896944.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:16:18 EST news157896944 In chronic kidney disease patients, different levels of anemia treatment have a beneficial effect on the heart and improve quality of life, according to a pair of studies appearing in the April 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that different levels of treatment may be warranted for different patients. http://phys.org/news157826654.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:45:05 EST news157826654 A failing heart makes a lot of a hormone needed to eliminate the excess salt and water bloating the body but not enough of the enzyme needed to activate it, researchers say. http://phys.org/news157716716.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:12:22 EST news157716716 The level of exercise is linked with the reduction of hospitalization and death in patients with chronic heart failure, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. http://phys.org/news157637639.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:14:29 EST news157637639 Results from the first comparative effectiveness study of two surgical treatments for heart failure will likely change practice for surgeons and cardiologists evaluating treatment options for some of their sickest patients, according to investigators in the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). http://phys.org/news157633367.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:04:17 EST news157633367 Relaxine, a naturally occurring hormone that helps women adapt to pregnancy, is showing promise as a treatment for acute heart failure, a new study has found. http://phys.org/news157616798.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:27:51 EST news157616798 Heart failure—a disabling and often deadly form of heart disease—is hitting African Americans in their thirties and forties at the same rate as Caucasians in their fifties and sixties, according to a study featured as the lead article of the March 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://phys.org/news156615542.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:19:35 EST news156615542 A novel signaling pathway plays a significant role in the production of aldosterone, a hormone that promotes heart failure after a myocardial infarction, according to a study conducted by Thomas Jefferson University researchers. http://phys.org/news156450714.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:32:26 EST news156450714 Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in CMAJ by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf. http://phys.org/news156449760.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:16:29 EST news156449760 Researchers have identified a set of criteria that, when combined with a measure of kidney function, could help identify patients who are likely to receive a survival benefit from a combined heart and kidney transplant, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://phys.org/news156440121.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:48:48 EST news156440121 People over 80 years of age suffering from a certain type of heart failure do not appear to benefit from most commonly prescribed heart medications, according to a study conducted at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and published in the March 15 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. http://phys.org/news156096464.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:08:17 EST news156096464 Results from a large, international, randomised, controlled trial have shown that there is a strong link between diabetics who have an abnormal heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) and an increased risk of other heart-related problems and death. The findings are published in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] today (Thursday 12 March). http://phys.org/news156060407.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:07:18 EST news156060407 With the help of a non-invasive method of monitoring human activity, doctors and researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are shedding new light on a syndrome affecting nearly 40 percent of older adults with heart failure: anergia. http://phys.org/news156006065.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:01:26 EST news156006065 The new medical subspecialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology will lead the way in providing technically advanced yet cost-effective care for patients with heart failure, says a perspective article in the March issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure, official publication of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and the Japanese Heart Failure Society, published by Elsevier. http://phys.org/news155473096.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:36 EST news155473096 Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center may have discovered a new targeted intervention for Barth Syndrome (BTHS). BTHS, a sometimes fatal disease, is a serious genetic disorder occurring predominantly in males that leads to infection or heart failure in childhood. The new study entitled, "Role of calcium-independent phospholipase A2 in the pathogenesis of Barth syndrome", was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the benefits of targeted intervention with an iPLA2-VIA inhibitor that prevents a major symptom of the disease- cardiolipin deficiency. http://phys.org/news155227141.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:42:30 EST news155227141 Clinicians should be alert to patients reporting "excessive" day time sleepiness (EDS), says the European Society of Cardiology, after a French study found healthy elderly people who regularly report feeling sleepy during the day have a significantly higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. http://phys.org/news154889975.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:21 EST news154889975 Researchers at the University of Vermont Cardiovascular Research Institute, Colchester, Vermont have found that increased expression in the heart of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) is profibrotic. The results, which appear in the March 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, implicate PAI-1 overexpression, known to accompany insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, as a factor contributing to the high incidence of heart failure after myocardial infarction in people with diabetes. http://phys.org/news154682145.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:16:15 EST news154682145 (PhysOrg.com) -- Statins, used widely to treat elevated cholesterol, have been shown to prevent progression of coronary narrowing and to have other beneficial effects on the heart, such as reducing inflammation, that are independent of cholesterol. http://phys.org/news154630899.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:02:11 EST news154630899 Based on a striking similarity between heart disease and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered that a new class of experimental drugs for heart failure may also help treat the fatal muscular disorder. http://phys.org/news153324060.html Medicine & Health Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:03:07 EST news153324060 Nearly half of patients with heart failure (HF) have problems with memory and other aspects of cognitive functioning, reports a new study published by Elsevier, in the February issue of Journal of Cardiac Failure . http://phys.org/news153065042.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:05:44 EST news153065042 In a first of its kind discovery, University of Minnesota researchers have identified the "master gene" behind blood vessel development. Better understanding of how this gene operates in the early stages of development may help researchers find better treatments for heart disease and cancer. http://phys.org/news152976906.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:35:38 EST news152976906 Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered that a prototype drug reduces heart enlargement, one of the most common causes of heart failure. http://phys.org/news152470755.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:59:41 EST news152470755 The use of loop diuretics does not appear to be associated with changes in bone mineral density, falls or fractures in postmenopausal women, according to a report in the January 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, prolonged use of loop diuretics may increase fracture risk in this group. http://phys.org/news152214956.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:56:17 EST news152214956 While the treatment of heart failure has improved over the past two decades, a new study reported in the European Journal of Heart Failure finds that "the use of evidence-based treatments appears to be imbalanced according to the gender of the patient". http://phys.org/news151855751.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:09:26 EST news151855751 Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) can improve survival in patients with heart damage — even those in their 70s — according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://phys.org/news150482825.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:47:05 EST news150482825 A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that the frequent arousals from sleep that occur in heart failure patients with central sleep apnea (CSA) may reflect the presence of another underlying arousal disorder rather than being a defensive mechanism to terminate apneas. http://phys.org/news150024559.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:29:19 EST news150024559 An implantable hemodynamic monitor (IHM) may help to guide medical treatment in a large subgroup of patients with heart failure—those with diastolic heart failure (DHF), reports a study in the December Journal of Cardiac Failure (http://www.onlinejcf.com/), published by Elsevier. http://phys.org/news148220841.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:27:21 EST news148220841 A medication used for high blood pressure does not improve a common form of heart failure, according to new results from a large, international study. http://phys.org/news147616869.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:41:09 EST news147616869