The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure are published online today in European Heart…
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Dynamic heart model mimics hemodynamic loads, advances engineered heart tissue technology
Efforts to understand cardiac disease progression and develop therapeutic tissues that can repair the human heart are just a few areas of focus for the…
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Pumped to assist the heart with an artificial aorta
Scientists from EPFL and University of Bern have successfully implanted—in vivo—their first artificial tubular muscle that augments the aorta and assists cardiac function in pumping…
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US to add heart inflammation warning for COVID mRNA vaccines for teens
US health authorities plan to update official guidance about administering mRNA COVID vaccines to adolescents and young adults after finding a likely link to rare…
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Lowering the cost of heart cell therapies
Suffering from the number one cause of death, patients with heart disease are in desperate need of new therapies. However, these new therapies rely on…
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‘Few reports’ of heart issue in US young people after vaccine
US health authorities said they were looking into a small number of reports of heart inflammation among some younger people who received COVID vaccines, with…
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Post-COVID Cardiac Involvement Rare in College Athletes
Young athletes are unlikely to experience ongoing heart problems post–COVID-19 infection. In a multicenter study conducted during September-December 2020, only 0.7% of 3,018 collegiate athletes…
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Significantly higher rates of mortality due to heart disease and cancer among Holocaust survivors
The damaging effects of life under Nazi rule have long been known with many victims having experienced periods of protracted emotional and physical torture, malnutrition…
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Depression risk higher among stroke survivors, especially female patients
Stroke patients were nearly 50% more likely than heart attack patients to develop depression, and female stroke patients had a higher risk of depression than…
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Eating more refined grains associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality
A new study published in The British Medical Journal by researchers including SFU health sciences professor Scott Lear found consuming a high number of refined…
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