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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/heart.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/heart-news.html 94 103 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2010/screening-tool-to-identify-heart-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2010/screening-tool-to-identify-heart-disease.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT In a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), scientists say they may have an explanation as to why African Americans, despite having lower amounts of coronary artery calcification, are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events compared with Caucasians........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/fats-galore-in-human-plasma.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/fats-galore-in-human-plasma.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Human blood is famously fraught with fats; now scientists have a specific idea of just how numerous and diverse these lipids actually are. A national research team, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first "lipidome" of human plasma, identifying and quantifying almost 600 distinct fat species circulating in human blood........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/watermelon-lowers-blood-pressure.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/watermelon-lowers-blood-pressure.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich and now, there's more. Evidence from a pilot study led by food researchers at The Florida State University suggests that watermelon can be an effective natural weapon against prehypertension, a precursor to cardiovascular disease........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2008/can-your-doctor-correctly-read.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2008/can-your-doctor-correctly-read.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT You have a burning chest pain and a doctor looks at a squiggly-lined graph to determine the cause. That graph, an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), can help the doctor decide whether you're having a heart attack or an acid attack from last night's spaghetti. Correct interpretation may prompt life-saving, emergency measures; incorrect interpretation may delay care with life-threatening consequences. Currently, there is no uniform way to teach doctors in training how to interpret an ECG or assess their competence in the interpretation........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2007/health-coverage-reduces-major-heart-complications.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2007/health-coverage-reduces-major-heart-complications.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT As presidential candidates ramp up their primary campaigns, health care reform looms prominently among voters main concerns. A new study in the December 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, provides the most comprehensive evidence to date that expanding coverage to people without it leads to demonstrable improvements in health........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/anti-smoking-strategy-targets-fourth-graders.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/anti-smoking-strategy-targets-fourth-graders.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT A smoking-prevention strategy that targets black fourth-graders and their parents is under study in urban and rural Georgia. Scientists want to know if they can keep these children from smoking and help smoking parents quit, as per Dr. Martha S. Tingen, nurse researcher at the Medical College of Georgia's Georgia Prevention Institute, and Interim Program Leader for Cancer Prevention and Control, MCG Cancer Center........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2007/over-65-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysms.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2007/over-65-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysms.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Between 5% and 10% of men aged 65 to 79 have abdominal aortic aneurysms, but don't know it. If their weakened arteries burst they stand a very high risk of dying. Ultrasound screening of men in this age group can significantly reduce the numbers of men who die from this condition. The overall benefits of screening are complex, however, because a number of men may be subjected to unnecessary anxiety and/or to the complications of surgery........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/gene-test-after-heart-transplant.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/gene-test-after-heart-transplant.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT New research suggests a genomic test may provide detailed information on how well a transplanted heart is performing. The gene expression profiling (GEP) test, known as the Allomapandreg; test, is currently used to detect the absence of heart transplant rejection instead of routine invasive heart muscle biopsies, but has now been shown to correlate with oxygen saturation levels, the pressure in the heart before pumping, and the electrical properties of the transplanted heart. These measures are crucial to understanding how well the transplanted heart is functioning........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/issues-in-pediatric-cardiology.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/issues-in-pediatric-cardiology.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Heart problems in children are quite different from those in adults, and four studies presented today at the American College of Cardiologys 56th Annual Scientific Session look at how pediatric heart specialists take different approaches to better understand and manage cardiovascular disease in this population, including insights into fundamental cardiac mechanisms and testing of new procedures. ACC.07 is the premier cardiovascular medical meeting, bringing together heart specialists and cardiovascular specialists to further breakthroughs in cardiovascular medicine........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/adult-stem-cells-for-heart-damage-repair.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2007/adult-stem-cells-for-heart-damage-repair.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is among the first medical centers in the country taking part in a novel clinical trial investigating if a subject's own stem cells can treat a form of severe coronary artery disease. The trial, just underway at UW Hospital and Clinics, is enrolling subjects in the Autologous Cellular Therapy CD34-Chronic Myocardial Ischemia (ACT34-CMI) Trial. The first patient underwent the procedure March 7. Because the study is randomized and "double-blinded," however, neither the patient nor the research doctor knows if he received his own stem cells or a placebo substance........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2007/stem-cells-to-repair-damaged-hearts.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2007/stem-cells-to-repair-damaged-hearts.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Rush University Medical Center is one of the first medical centers in the country, and currently the only site in Illinois, participating in a novel clinical trial to determine if a subject's own stem cells can treat a form of severe coronary artery disease. The Autologous Cellular Therapy CD34-Chronic Myocardial Ischemia (ACT34-CMI) Trial is the first human, Phase II adult stem cell treatment study in the U.S. designed to investigate the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of blood-derived selected CD34+ stem cells to improve symptoms and clinical outcomes in subjects with chronic myocardial ischemia (CMI), a severe form of coronary artery disease........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/growing-heart-muscle.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/growing-heart-muscle.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle - even though it was grown in the lab. And it brings researchers another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts, or eventually growing an entirely new heart from just a spoonful of loose heart cells........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/the-impact-of-immunosuppressive-medications.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/the-impact-of-immunosuppressive-medications.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. As per extensive evidence, the key driver for this increased risk of cardiovascular disease is the increased systemic inflammation characteristic of RA. Studies are less clear on whether medications that work to reduce RA's inflammatory symptoms provide protective benefits against cardiovascular events. Some data have suggested that the most potential biologic therapies, such as the TNF blockers, might reduce the risk of ischemic cardiovascular events........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/personality-traits-and-heart-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/personality-traits-and-heart-disease.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Frequent bouts of depression, anxiety, hostility and anger are known to increase a person's risk for developing coronary heart disease, but a combination of these "negative" personality traits may put people at particularly serious risk, as per a research studyby scientists at Duke University Medical Center........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/heart-catheters-do-not-benefit-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/heart-catheters-do-not-benefit-patients.html Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:54:06 GMT Doctors should probably stop using pulmonary artery catheters because they do not benefit patients, say doctors from Australia in this week's BMJ. The pulmonary artery catheter was invented in 1968. It enabled bedside monitoring in critically ill patients by measuring heart output and capillary pressure in the lungs and became widely used in intensive care units........ ]]>