News tagged with heart enlargement

Research shows that newly discovered drug reduces heart enlargement

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.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Gorilla genome sequenced

The assembly of the gorilla genome was announced today, March 7, by a multi-national group of researchers. The gorilla is the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. While confirming ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

How do you mend a broken heart?

Damaged heart tissue is not known for having much inherent capacity for repair. But now, scientists are closing in on signals that may be able to coax the heart into producing replacement cardiac muscle cells. Using a zebrafish ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gold rush hurts aquatic life

Gold prospectors chasing $1,600-an-ounce flecks in river bottoms east of Charlotte also might be sucking life out of the streams, experts say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Software to prevent abuse at the click of a mouse

Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that can detect ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can MRI drive a medical robot?

Engineers at Children’s Hospital Boston have demonstrated the ability to program the magnetic field generated by a clinical MRI scanner to motorize and control a robotic instrument – in this case, a surgical biopsy ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers gain new clues about how to prevent aortic aneurysm in patients with Marfan syndrome

Five years ago, patients with Marfan syndrome received new hope when laboratory studies suggested that losartan, an FDA-approved drug used to treat high blood pressure, might prevent the potentially deadly enlargement of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Website maps what Americans look for in love

In the cosmopolitan US capital, singles are seeking everything from "Morocco" to "Ethiopia", "Kazakhstan" and "steppes", to "Ascot" and "Bourgogne."

Technology / Internet

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Device drops blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension

A device designed to treat people with resistant hypertension helped lower blood pressure by 33 points, a substantial drop that would otherwise require patients to take an additional three or four drugs, on top of this subgroup's ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Are ICDs up to par with patients living longer?

Most patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) who have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) now live more than seven years and those ICD patients with hereditary heart disease ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring oxidative stress can predict risk of atrial fibrillation

Measuring oxidative stress may help doctors predict the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, the most common heart beat irregularity. Research from Emory University School of Medicine has identified a connection between ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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