Dec 4 (Reuters) - Cardiac device maker Thoratec Corp (THOR.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said an interim analysis of a late-stage study showed its HeartMate II device to be statistically superior to an existing heart pump, sending its ...
4 Dec 2008
MILWAUKEE , Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Health Care is ramping up its efforts to promote the use of Vitamin D supplements. Aurora's Care Management Clinical Leadership Team members committed this week to educate all Aurora caregivers about the ...
4 Dec 2008
BERLIN (AP) ― Knut the superstar polar bear turns 2 on Friday looking nothing like the button-eyed ball of white fluff who captured hearts around the world. The star of the Berlin Zoo is a fully grown bear with yellowish fur who, at 440 pounds, has ...
4 Dec 2008
The NFL decided to suspend for four games under the NFL Substance Abuse Policy the following players for using a diuretic (it can serve as a masking agent for steroids): Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Charles Grant and Will Smith of New ...
4 Dec 2008
Cancer and heart disease were the two leading causes of deaths for Canadians, responsible for 52.4 per cent of all deaths in 2004, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. Between 2000 and 2004, age-standardized mortality rates declined for all 10 ...
4 Dec 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A medication used for high blood pressure does not improve a common form of heart failure, according to new results from a large, international study. The study, which included researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist ...
4 Dec 2008
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Thoratec Corp. said its mechanical heart pump outperformed the company’s older device in a trial of 200 patients with advanced heart failure .
4 Dec 2008
Moderate alcohol intake is associated with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in plasma and red blood cells. The study suggests that wine does better than other alcoholic drinks. This effect could be ascribed to compounds other than alcohol itself, representing a key to understand the mechanism lying behind the heart protection observed in moderate wine drinkers.
4 Dec 2008
Researchers have shown in both fruit flies and humans that genes involved in embryonic heart development are also integral to adult heart function.
4 Dec 2008
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Thoratec Corp. said its mechanical heart pump outperformed the company’s older pump in a trial of 200 patients with advanced heart failure.
4 Dec 2008
Cancer and heart disease accounted for more than half of the deaths in Canada in 2004, but ranked significantly lower for young adults and the elderly, according to a new Statistics Canada report.
4 Dec 2008
Thanksgiving arrived in the first week of December for a young Cambodian boy and his family. Soksamnang Vy, who turns 1 on Sunday, had life-altering open-heart surgery at Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas on Thursday.
4 Dec 2008
It affects the autonomic nervous system, which is the nerves that regulate the things we don’t have control over, processes like digestion, sexual response, and heart function. Not to be confused with peripheral neuropathy, ...
4 Dec 2008
Jim Calhoun has won two NCAA championships. He’sa Hall of Famer, a certified basketball legend. But at heart, he’s still a wide-eyed kid from Massachusetts, giddy at the privilege of walking into some tiny gymnasium to play the sport he ...
4 Dec 2008
While it is exceedingly difficult to tell from reading the general media, there are actually two different kinds of heart CT scans, which have entirely different purposes, and which are useful (or not) in different kinds of patients. ...
4 Dec 2008
The Scripps Research Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research organization, discovered a mutation within their mice colony of a specific gene known as Coronin-1A (Coro1a) in the Asian macaque.
3 Dec 2008
A new risk factor for heart disease has been discovered, although this time it is something that can easily be corrected...
3 Dec 2008
December 3, 2008. Another Stake in the Taxpayers' Heart. Arnold Kling. December 3, 2008. Subprime Lenders Still Soaking Taxpayers. Arnold Kling. December 3, 2008. Great White Parenthetical. Bryan Caplan. December 3, 2008 ...
3 Dec 2008
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