Medications
Medical marijuana for pain is linked to slight rise in heart trouble
People who use medical marijuana to treat chronic pain may have a slightly heightened risk of heart arrhythmias, a preliminary study suggests.
Aug 23, 2022
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Cardiology
Nationally representative study shows disparities persist in lipid control
After years of steady progress, declines in cardiovascular mortality appear to have stagnated since 2008 and heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. Scientists attribute the pause in progress ...
Aug 23, 2022
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Medications
Cannabis prescribed for pain linked with small risk of heart problems
Cannabis prescribed for chronic pain is associated with an elevated risk of heart rhythm disorders, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2022.
Aug 22, 2022
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Medical research
Fake research can be harmful to your health—a new study offers a tool for rooting it out
If you are suffering with chronic pain, diabetes, heart problems or any other condition, you want to be confident that your doctor will offer you an effective treatment. You certainly don't want to waste time or money on ...
Aug 18, 2022
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Cardiology
For checking blood pressure at home, basic cuffs are just as good as standard devices
When patients are diagnosed with hypertension—as nearly half of American adults have been—they are often advised to buy a blood pressure monitoring device to use at home. Daily home readings paint a clearer picture of ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Cardiology
Study finds two protein pathways downregulated in postnatal heart
In work published today in Stem Cell Reports, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School discovered two signaling pathways that are downregulated in human hearts after birth. These pathways, mitogen-activated ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Cardiology
Two heart medications tied to greater heart attack risk during very hot weather
For people with coronary heart disease, beta blockers can improve survival and quality of life, while aspirin and other anti-platelet medications can reduce the risk of a heart attack.
Aug 1, 2022
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Health informatics
Predicting patients' race can improve equity in health care delivery, says new analysis
Algorithms designed to guide medical care can contribute to racially inequitable outcomes, but eliminating information about patient race and ethnicity as an input to algorithms is not the right way to address the issue, ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Cardiology
New study provides insight for how congenital heart defects manifest
About one percent of the world population is born with a congenital heart defect, which affects about 40,000 U.S. births each year, but how these particular birth defects come about is largely unknown.
Aug 1, 2022
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Genetics
Uncovering new approaches to the common inherited heart disorder hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Research led by Muhammad Riaz, Ph.D., Jinkyu Park, Ph.D., and Lorenzo Sewanan, MD, Ph.D., from the Qyang and Campbell laboratories at Yale, provides a mechanism to identify abnormalities linked with a hereditary cardiac condition, ...
Aug 1, 2022
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