POSTS TAGGED AS heart disease

Automated, Portable Cardio Imaging Device

Panasonic’s “CardioHealth” Station uses ultrasound to produce a high resolution, real time image of a patient’s coronary and carotid [MORE]

More Horsepower for Molecular Imaging

Last month, four of the UK’s leading research institutions-the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and [MORE]

How Common Is Good Heart Health? Not Very

Nonsmoking, a BMI below 25, goal level exercise and a good diet, unmedicated cholesterol below 200, BP below 120/80, [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

Insurers Warming to Telemed

Aetna estimates that 40% of hospital readmissions are avoidable.  MetroPlus Health Plan (NY, HMO) calculates that a Medicaid heart [MORE]

Nation’s Lowest Hospital Readmission Rate

“Treat and street” is a slang expression that translates to a short length of stay (LOS) in the hospital.  While [MORE]

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

Shock Waves to Grow New Blood Vessels in the Heart

Cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic aren’t sure why acoustic waves initiate a wound-healing process, but nevertheless they are testing [MORE]

Heartbeats, More Complex than Supposed

For her PhD thesis in biophysics at the University of Virginia, Abigail Flower investigated the high variability of heart [MORE]

“Nanomembrane Transistors”

Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [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]

90% of Americans at Risk for Heart Disease

For decades the CDC has conducted National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, and the most recent one finds that nearly [MORE]

Detecting Heart Disease in Women

Women often have different indicators of cardiovascular disease than men-e.g. greater microvascular deterioration, when their main coronary arteries are in [MORE]

Heart Patch

In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]

Heart Patch

In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]

Detecting Heart Disease with One Drop of Blood

Shashi K. Murthy, in the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University (Boston) has developed a device, about the size of [MORE]

Willem Kolff (1912-2009)

Artificial organ pioneer, Dr. Willem Kolff, passed away last week at his home in Philadelphia.  During his distinguished career, which [MORE]

Implant for Remote Heart Monitoring

On Feb. 16, Medtronic announced its new implantable heart monitor, “Reveal XT,” as part of its Care Link Network.  A [MORE]

15 Minute Cancer Diagnostic

Researchers at Leeds University in Britain have developed a rapid assay for prostate and ovarian cancer, heart disease and stroke, [MORE]

Pfizer’s Business Refocus

Pfizer believes that its highest payoff for R&D will be in oncology, pain, inflammation, diabetes, Alzheimer’s’ disease and [MORE]