Health
Heart attacks spike during holidays: Tips to protect yourself
Late December is typically a time when holiday stress and winter weather can collide, creating a perfect recipe for a rise in heart attacks and stroke.
Dec 12, 2023
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Cardiology
Clinical trial finds cell therapy improves quality of life in advanced heart failure
Stem cell-based therapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced heart failure, Mayo Clinic researchers and international collaborators discovered in a late-stage multinational clinical trial. In one of the largest ...
Dec 12, 2023
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Cardiology
Researchers are upbeat about cardiac regeneration
Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of the heart, tiny natural batteries that keep this vital organ beating 100,000 times a day as it pumps 2,000 gallons of blood throughout the human body.
Dec 9, 2023
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Cardiology
Zebrafish study demonstrates heart repair via neuroimmune crosstalk
Unlike humans, zebrafish can completely regenerate their hearts after injury. They owe this ability to the interaction between their nervous and immune systems, as researchers led by Suphansa Sawamiphak from the Max Delbrück ...
Nov 17, 2023
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Cardiology
AI phone app detects worsening heart failure based on changes in patients' voices
A smartphone app using artificial intelligence technology to detect changes in the voice of a person with heart failure predicted more than 75% of hospitalizations about three weeks before they happened, according to late-breaking ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Medical research
A comprehensive evaluation of spontaneous pelvic organ prolapse in non-human primates as a model for human studies
Animal models are urgently needed to evaluate the host tissue responses and safety of newly developed treatments for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). However, there is a lack of suitable animal models for studying POP due to ...
Nov 10, 2023
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Medical research
Study demonstrates fibroblasts participate in the formation of vascular malformations—a potential new target for therapy
A study by researchers and clinicians at the University of Eastern Finland and Helsinki University Hospital provides novel insight into the previously unknown effects of fibroblasts in regulating blood vessel formation in ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Immunology
Some benefits of exercise stem from the immune system, suggests new study
The connection between exercise and inflammation has captivated the imagination of researchers ever since an early 20th-century study showed a spike of white cells in the blood of Boston marathon runners following the race.
Nov 3, 2023
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Medical research
RNA fragment creates prospect for new atherosclerosis therapies
Atherosclerosis is considered a frequent cause of cardiovascular diseases and strokes. Despite medical progress, case numbers are constantly rising. Targeted new therapeutic approaches are therefore more important than ever.
Nov 2, 2023
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Cardiology
Combining cell types may lead to improved cardiac cell therapy following heart attack
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Academia Sinica of Taiwan have harnessed a combination of lab-grown cells to regenerate damaged heart muscle.
Oct 31, 2023
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