News tagged with heartbeat
New mini-sensor traces faint magnetic signature of human heartbeat
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the German national metrology institute have used NIST's miniature atom-based magnetic sensor to successfully track a human heartbeat, ...
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Brain works best when cells keep right rhythms
It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 26, 2009 |
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More compressions, fewer interruptions lead to higher cardiac arrest survival
Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 04, 2009 |
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Sperm donor passed on sudden death heart defect
(AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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What to do if you are bitten by a snake
Should you be the victim of a snakebite, the best thing you can do is get to a hospital as quickly as possible, according to a new review article from the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS). Curren ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Why mixing alcohol and caffeine is so deadly
Americans love their caffeine - in coffee, colas and now in their alcohol.
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders
Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Eating fatty fish once a week reduces men's risk of heart failure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, a recent study shows, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids are of benefit to cardiac health. Led ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Exercise-linked ventricular tachycardia is not a risk to healthy older adults
Healthy, older adults free of heart disease need not fear that bouts of rapid, irregular heartbeats brought on by vigorous exercise might increase short- or long-term risk of dying or having a heart attack, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 17, 2009 |
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New study has implications for understanding ion channel defects
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Common gene variant may increase risk for a type of cardiac arrhythmia
An international research team has identified a common gene variant associated with a form of the irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation. In their report in the journal Nature Genetics, being published online, the in ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Vital balance brought to elders
 by Tele-Tai Chi
Imagine swaying to and fro, dancing to the rhythm of a slow love song. Then switch that image to maintaining balance while standing on one foot. How about standing straight with two feet on the ground and not moving? It's ...
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Landmark heart treatment study
Treating a common heart rhythm disorder by burning heart tissue with a catheter works dramatically better than drug treatments, according to a landmark study published in the Jan. 27 issue of the Journal of the American Me ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2010 |
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When the heart gets out of step
Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia -- a chronic irregularity of heartbeat -- which affects an estimated 1 million people in Germany. Although the condition is not acutely life-threatening, it does increase the risk ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Ruthless boas know when to ditch their squeeze
Boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their quarry as they suffocate it, thus giving themselves the signal to know when the prey is dead, scientists say.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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