Lab uses skin cells to help repair heart muscle
23.05.2012, 08:39:24
Lab scientists on Wednesday reported that for the first time they had taken skin cells from patients who had suffered heart failure and turned them into cells that could repair damaged cardiac muscle. |
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Kids suffer long-term from parents' smoking: study
23.05.2012, 08:46:12
Children exposed to their parents' cigarette smoke are at greater risk of suffering serious cardiovascular health problems later in life, a study showed Wednesday. |
South Korean smokers finally start to feel the heat
23.05.2012, 00:20:09
After decades of indifference, big businesses and the government are turning up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a nation with one of the developed world's highest male smoking rates. |
UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation
23.05.2012, 17:52:04
A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation. |
Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured
22.05.2012, 13:29:47
Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod. |
Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis
23.05.2012, 19:47:48
A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, officials said Wednesday. |
U.S. advisers reject J&J/Bayer's Xarelto for acute coronary patients
24.05.2012, 01:53:07
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers recommended against expanding the use of Johnson & Johnson's blood thinner Xarelto as a way to reduce the risk of new heart attacks and strokes in people with heart problems. A panel of outside experts to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Wednesday that the pill should not be approved for people with acute coronary syndrome. J&J developed the drug in partnership with German drugmaker Bayer AG. ... |
Too many people get angioplasties, study suggests
24.05.2012, 01:04:47
(Corrects spelling of the lead author's last name to Hannan in 17th paragraph) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of every seven patients having a non-emergency angioplasty to clear a clogged artery in the heart didn't meet criteria for needing the procedure, in a new study from New York. And based on guidelines, it was uncertain whether the stent-inserting surgery was appropriate in another one-half of patients. ... |
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