Tag: heart

ScienceDaily (May 20, 2011) Engineers at Brown University and in India have a promising new approach to treating heart-attack victims.
The researchers created a nanopatch with carbon nanofibers and a polymer.
In laboratory tests, natural heart-tissue cell density on the nanoscaffold was six times greater than the control sample, while neuron density had doubled.

ScienceDaily (May 7, 2011) Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself.
This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in combating cardiovascular disease, one of the most serious health problems of our day.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2010) Imagine being able to image life as it happens by capturing video of the embryonic heart before it begins beating. A professor at the University of Houston, in collaboration with scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, is doing just that.

Kirill Larin, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at UH, and his colleagues in the Texas Medical Center are documenting the formation of the mammalian heart through a high-resolution, non-invasive imaging device, providing perhaps the best live imagery taken of the vital organ.

Because Americans are more likely to adapt to stress than quell it, millions are unaware their heart health is at rick. Chronic stress and coronary heart disease go hand and hand. Its linked to unhealthy cholesterol levels, hypertension, and a host of unhealthy habits that most of us turn to under duress.
Aside from all of this, if you're often in a bad mood it may be time to address your stress.
Studies maintain that hostility may trump the leading predictors of heart disease.

Breastfeeding isn't just good for baby, it may also boost mom's cardiovascular health as she ages, new research suggests.

Women in their 60s who had breastfed for more than 12 months over their lifespan were nearly 10 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease, and significantly less likely to develop heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, researchers report.

MIAMI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.

The doctors said they knew of another case in which an adult had been kept alive in Germany for nine months without a heart but said they believed this was the first time a child had survived in this manner for so long.

The patient, D'Zhana Simmons of South Carolina, said the experience of living for so long with a machine pumping her blood was "scary."

Reduce the possibility of a heart attack with lifestyle modifications.

More than anything else, how you live your life determines your likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD).

Scientists say they have a working prototype of a fully artificial heart ready for implanting in humans.

The device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.