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This idea will allegedly detect irregular heartbeats and slow the car down. Uh, there are many, many folks out there with irregular heartbeats who aren’t having heart attack. Why not just sell a car that comes with a cardiologist on-board? Toyota’s new steering wheel could prevent heart attacks Contact sensors are located at the “10 [...]
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C-Reactive Protein is a measure of inflammation and is important to keep track of: these research findings continue one of the major themes in this blog — that individual differences make a lot of difference when dealing with medication and test results.. C-Reactive Protein Levels Vary According To Ancestry Medical News Today 29 September 2010 [...]
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Medical News Today; May 5, 2010 A diagnostic tool developed by Rice University scientists to detect heart attacks using a person’s saliva is being tested at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston. John T. McDevitt, professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Rice, and [...]
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These are some of the best sources of medical information on the Web: www.mayoclinic.com Reliable, evidence based medical information. Well-presented, well-written. www.clevelandclinic.org Good collection of resources for heart issues. www.askapatient.com A tremendous resource on medication; consumers writing about their experience and side effects of medication. Information that you will not see on a pharmaceutical website. [...]
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A new approach to analyzing electrocardiograms–a ubiquitous test of the heart’s electrical function–could predict who is most likely to die after a heart attack. Researchers at MIT found that measuring how much the shape of the electrical waveform varies from beat to beat identifies high-risk patients better than existing risk factors. If the findings hold [...]
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A team of Mayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac rehabilitation is associated with significantly reduced mortality rates for patients who have had stents placed to treat blockages in their coronary arteries. The findings, presented today at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, found that patients who had coronary angioplasty [...]
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New methods needed to ID cardiac catheterization candidates Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – 18:25 in Health & Medicine It’s time to re-think how patients are selected for cardiac catheterization, say doctors at Duke University Medical Center, after reporting in a new study that the invasive procedure found no significant coronary artery disease in nearly 60 [...]
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New Method to Grow Arteries Could Lead to ‘Biological Bypass’ for Heart Disease ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) — A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass” — or a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report with their colleagues in the April issue of Journal [...]
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A new US study found women’s knowledge of the warning signs of a heart attack is as poor as it was a decade ago, with half saying they would not call 9-1-1 if they were having heart attack symptoms; they also found that although getting narrower, there are still racial gaps in women’s awareness of [...]
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An early invasive strategy for managing patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome was no better in the long term at preventing death or MI than a more conservative approach, researchers found. Nor was there a significant benefit at five years from coronary angiography within 48 hours with revascularization when appropriate when the groups were [...]
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