NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Heart-transplant recipients with the lowest medical urgency receive hearts from donors with an increased number of comorbidities, including hepatitis C…
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Earlier Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest Tied to Better Outcomes
Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with shockable rhythm who received epinephrine within 4 minutes of a first defibrillator shock had better outcomes than those…
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Bedtime linked with heart health
Going to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00 pm is associated with a lower risk of developing heart disease compared to earlier or later bedtimes, according…
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MMRI explores overlapping cardiac conditions as result of electrocution
It's not uncommon for people to live normal, healthy lives without knowledge of any underlying genetic conditions. However, all it takes is one external impact,…
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ESC Guidelines on heart failure management launched today
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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