Patients taking losmapimod, an anti-inflammatory drug currently being developed, for 12 weeks following a heart attack did not show improvements in the trial's primary endpoint, the rate of cardiovascular death, subsequent ...
Apr 4, 2016
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Cleveland Clinic researchers studying evacetrapib have shown that despite reducing levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad" cholesterol) by 37 percent and raising levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" ...
Apr 3, 2016
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In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Pierluigi Tricoci, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.S., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, N.C., and colleagues assessed the cumulative incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...
Mar 16, 2016
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The first sign of a heart attack is chest pain. Treatment in the next six to 10 hours with a method developed by microbiologist Hector Cabrera would reduce damage from three angles: lessening the inflammatory process, vascular ...
Feb 4, 2016
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Young women who survive a heart attack or stroke still face long-term risks of death and illness, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Nov 23, 2015
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University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have observed levels of HAX-1, an anti-cell death protein, drop significantly in mice after a heart attack and during heart failure resulting in cardiac cells dying at a higher than ...
Nov 16, 2015
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Myeong-Ki Hong, M.D., Ph.D., of the Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea and colleagues randomly assigned 1,400 patients with long coronary lesions to receive intravascular ultrasound-guided (n = 700) or angiography-guided ...
Nov 10, 2015
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A commonly prescribed drug for heart disease may do more good than previously thought. Researchers at York University have found that β-blockers may prevent further cell death following a heart attack and that could lead ...
Sep 15, 2015
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Researchers have long had reason to hope that blocking the flow of calcium into the mitochondria of heart and brain cells could be one way to prevent damage caused by heart attacks and strokes. But in a study of mice engineered ...
Jul 6, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Livers from donors who suffered cardiac death can be safely and effectively transplanted into patients dying of liver cancer, a new study suggests.
Jun 5, 2015
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