POSTS TAGGED AS cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular Conditions Among Current Olympic Athletes

Olympic Athletes
What does it say about human health when 7.3% of the world’s elite athletes have underlying cardiovascular conditions? Out [MORE]

Rare Earth Nanoparticles for Imaging

Rare Earth Nanoparticles
A crucial question in cancer diagnosis is whether or not a malignancy has spread. Early metastases can be [MORE]

Making Blood Vessels Younger

Mervin C. Yoder, MD, Indiana University SOM
Aging wears on blood vessels, as over time, endothelial cells lining blood vessels lose [MORE]

Loneliness as a “Co-Morbidity”

Elderly Depression
According to a Harvard study, one in seven adult Americans living alone is at greater risk for cardiovascular [MORE]

Telemed Management Better than Office Visits in Several Instances

At the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting earlier this year, a study was presented showing that internet-based systems [MORE]

Early Detection of Atherosclerosis

Biophysicists at the University of Virginia have identified a gene expression profile for diagnosing the risk an individual has [MORE]

Matching Trial Patients to Typical Sufferers

Here’s a quandary: Medicare pays for arterial stenting when patients have stroke symptoms, but not all patients who receive [MORE]

Stem Cells from Fat for Heart Repair

Cytori Celution
There may be one bright light in these obese times: fat contains about 200 times more progenitor cells [MORE]

Microfluidics for Home Testing

Smart Phone Health Testing
Lab-on-a-chip devices are opening a new genre of disruptive innovations on the model of the [MORE]

Alzheimer’s and Down’s Syndrome: The Same Disease?

Amyloid Plaque Formation
Researchers found a link-amyloid beta damage-between Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s two decades ago, but now it appears [MORE]

Optical System to Image Electrical and Metabolic Activity of the Heart

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a two-camera system, used during surgery, to visualize a heart’s electrical activity and, [MORE]

Home Monitoring CHF

In Italy, doctors still make house calls; indeed, the Giovanni Battista Hospital in Torino has a Geriatric Home Hospitalization Service [MORE]

Framingham Samples Available

Since 1948, the Framingham Heart Study, a project of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of NIH, has been [MORE]

Designing Drug-Eluting Stents

Stent
There are currently only four drug-eluting stents under FDA approval, and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness have been called into question.  [MORE]