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A change of heart keeps bears healthy while hibernating

Hibernating, it turns out, is much more complicated than one might think.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Marathons damage the hearts of less fit runners for up to 3 months

Is running a marathon good for you or can it damage the heart? A team of researchers and runners from the Heart and Stroke Foundation have come up with a practical way of answering the question. They used data from magnetic ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Heart defect likely killed 13th-century teen saint: study

A teenage saint whose 750-year-old mummified body lay for centuries in a church in central Italy probably died of a congenital heart defect, scientists said Thursday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New discovery about the formation of new brain cells

The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells' maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cell secreted protein can be given to reduce scarring and improve heart function

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heart tissue and stem cells spring into action to begin repairing muscle damaged in a heart attack, and researchers at Duke University School of Medicine found that a protein naturally produced in the body ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New heart pump to provide temporary assist for infants, adults

Researchers have created a new type of heart pump inserted with a catheter to improve the survival rate for infants undergoing a series of surgeries to correct a deadly birth defect.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a challenging infant heart defect, two-thirds may have high chance of survival

When prenatal diagnosis detects the severe heart defect hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in a fetus, a comprehensive prenatal evaluation is important to provide parents an accurate prognosis. In HLHS, one of the heart's ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transplanted adult stem cells provide lasting help to injured hearts

Human adult stem cells injected around the damage caused by a heart attack survived in the heart and improved its pumping efficiency for a year in a mouse model, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mexico City air pollution adversely affects the hearts of young people

A post-mortem study of the hearts of 21 young people in Mexico City has found that the heart begins to show the adverse effects of air pollution at a young age and that tiny bits of inactivated bacteria that hitch a ride ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken heart more than previously thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken the heart more than previously thought and may increase the risk of heart failure, according to research reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research says heart failure worse when right ventricle goes bad

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that the ability of right side of the heart to pump blood may be an indication of the risk of death to heart-failure patients whose condition is caused ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Smallest artificial heart pump' implanted: German hospital

Doctors in Germany have successfully implanted the world's smallest artificial heart pump, billed as more effective and unobtrusive than earlier devices, a hospital said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicians mending broken hearts

Pediatric surgeons are able to repair complex heart defects with a survival rate of greater than 90 percent, but that doesn't necessarily mean a happy ending for these children and teens. Some may have a great quality of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cardiac MR sheds light on obscure heart muscle condition

Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), a cardiomyopathy about which little is fully understood, is associated with heart failure (HF), stroke and ventricular arrhythmias, according to a study to be presented Nov. 17 at the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart transplant patients with common disorder have high survival rates

Transplant surgery to correct the most common type of genetic heart disease yields similar short-term and potentially greater long-term survival rates as transplant surgery for other heart diseases, according to research ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0