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Rare Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
November 22, 2019
Sudden cardiac death affects 220,000 U.S. adults annually, most of whom have no prior symptoms of a heart issue. By…
Startup Sees Future for Heart Imaging Technology
November 20, 2019 
Acoustoelectric cardiac imaging, a new, noninvasive cardiac imaging technology developed at the University of Arizona, has been licensed…
Improving the odds for patients with heart pumps
November 19, 2019
A new Yale study shows that some patients being treated for severe heart failure with a battery-operated pump…
New model of irregular heartbeat could boost drug efficacy
October 31, 2019
Patients with irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmia, have few effective treatment options — available drugs are not always effective,…
New MRI computing technique can spot scar muscles of heart without damaging Kidneys
August 28, 2019
3D MRI computing can measure strain in the heart using image registration method. Traditional method involves giving the…
UW Medicine, VA partner on 3D-print models for heart care
August 21, 2019 
The University of Washington School of Medicine and VA Puget Sound Health Care System today announced a two-year…
Damaged hearts rewired with nanotube fibers
August 14, 2019
Thin, flexible fibers made of carbon nanotubes have now proven able to bridge damaged heart tissues and deliver the electrical…
Stress linked to worse outcomes for young women with heart disease
August 7, 2019
Stress is much more harmful for young and middle-aged women with cardiovascular disease than for other patients, new…
Redesign of Cardiod’s heartbeat simulation brings code one step closer to clinical use
June 12, 2019
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has successfully optimized a code that models the human…
Novel technique reduces obstruction risk in heart valve replacement
May 21, 2019
Researchers at the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have…
Doctor’s brainstorm being realized at UW-Madison spinoff
March 22, 2019
The mother of invention visited Nicholas Von Bergen while he was caring for a newborn in the pediatric…
3 Heart Health Risks All Men Should Know
March 5, 2019
When it comes to cardiovascular health, men and women have many of the same risks. After all, everyone…
Novel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost your brain
February 26, 2019
A five-minute workout called Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) has been shown to lower blood pressure as much…
Growth of Cardio-Obstetrics Care Presents Challenges, Opportunity
February 20, 2019
For several years, congenital heart specialists have been counseling their female patients who hoped to give birth despite…
On the Beat
February 18, 2019
New tool lets researchers quantify contraction, relaxation in human heart cells in a dish. The human heart beats…
Bad Brakes of the Heart
February 1, 2019 
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic disease of the heart and a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people…
Heart Cell Defect Identified as Possible Cause of Heart Failure in Pregnancy
January 3, 2019
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare form of heart failure that affects women in their last month of…
3-D Printed Heart Valve Models Honored in International Competition
December 27, 2018
A Georgia Institute of Technology and Piedmont Heart Institute project to create tissue-mimicking heart valve models using advanced…
Weightlifting is good for your heart and it doesn’t take much
November 15, 2018
Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or…
Heart failure therapy improves outcomes for patients with acute illness
November 14, 2018
A drug therapy used for patients with chronic heart failure also improves markers of poor prognosis in individuals…
Diet fails? Try again. Your heart will thank you
November 14, 2018
Diet fluctuations lead to a rollercoaster of risk for heart disease and diabetes During the holiday season, it…
Common heart condition linked to sudden death
September 28, 2018
A University of Adelaide-led team of researchers has found a link between sudden cardiac death (when the heart…
New System Allows Rapid Response to Heart Attacks, Limits Cardiac Damage
August 10, 2018
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a…
A novel approach to cardiac surgery
August 3, 2018
Second-year medical student Kevin Cyr is part of a team of Stanford researchers investigating new ways to survey…
Genetics of heart rhythms explored in large population study
August 1, 2018
New knowledge about biological processes related to the heart’s electrical activity has been gained through a major genome…
Using adrenaline in cardiac arrests: 1% survival rate improvement and double risk of brain damage
July 19, 2018
A clinical trial of the use of adrenaline in cardiac arrests has found that its use results in…
Saved by a fall – and a first-anywhere heart procedure
July 19, 2018
Come September, when Debbie Davis returns to work as an aide at Morgan Middle School, she’ll have an…
Heart surgery can be safer, thank to UVA cardiologist’s new device
June 7, 2018
For many years, accessing the left side of the heart has been tricky business for cardiac surgeons. Until…
New algorithm more accurately predicts life expectancy after heart failure
May 17, 2018
UCLA research could help health care providers make better use of life-saving resources. A new algorithm developed by…
An ‘unprecedented look’ into the protein behind hypertension, epilepsy and other conditions
May 16, 2018
The seemingly unrelated conditions of hypertension, epilepsy and overactive bladder may be linked by electrical activity in a…
- New research aims to uncover role of genetics in heart damage from chemotherapy in children with Down syndrome
October 14, 2019 - Microvascular dysfunction: a common cause of heart failure with preserved pumping capacity
September 3, 2018 - Study shows yogurt may dampen chronic inflammation linked to multiple diseases
May 16, 2018 - New technique makes heart valve replacement safer for some high-risk patients
April 10, 2018 - Women and Men Should Receive Similar Treatment Decisions for Heart Disease, Study Argues
March 11, 2018 - Genetic Sequencing in Heart Disease Patients Can Benefit Families
March 5, 2018 - 3-D Mapping Gets Service Members Back to Work after Heart Procedures
December 21, 2017
- Personalizing Heart Health
December 21, 2017 - Research reveals how diabetes in pregnancy affects baby’s heart
December 12, 2017 - Introducing Titin, the Protein That Rules Our Hearts
November 14, 2017 - Dyes Detect Disease through Heartbeat Signals
August 24, 2017 - Antibody genes influence forgotten heart disease
May 20, 2017 - Team grows heart tissue on spinach leaves
March 28, 2017 - Longer telomeres protect against diseases of aging: A tale of mice and men
March 28, 2017 - Diabetes damages small coronary blood vessels and thus increases the risk of heart attacks
March 25, 2017 - Gene found to cause sudden death in young people
March 11, 2017 - Cause of killer cardiac disease identified by new method
March 3, 2017 - Thousands of people are getting unnecessary and costly heart surgeries
March 2, 2017 - New PET radiotracer identifies inflammation in life-threatening atherosclerosis
March 1, 2017 - Light beam replaces blood test during heart surgery
February 28, 2017 - Study suggests air pollution’s risk to the heart may stem from the gut
February 25, 2017 - New medicine will treat heart failure with unprecedented effectiveness
February 15, 2017 - New hope for treating heart failure
February 14, 2017 - High-throughput, in vivo validation of candidate congenital heart disease genes
February 11, 2017 - Function of olfactory receptor in the human heart identified
February 9, 2017 - Preventing blood clots with a new metric for heart function
January 31, 2017 - Biomarker could identify patients with potential to recover from advanced heart failure
January 19, 2017 - Easy blood test can help predicting the risk of a heart attack
December 31, 2016
- Defibrillators’ value varies among heart-failure patients
December 28, 2016 - Synthetic stem cells could offer therapeutic benefits, reduced risks
December 26, 2016 - Can a cancer drug treat a rare cardiac disease?
December 16, 2016 - Scientists produce functional heart pacemaker cells
December 15, 2016 - Heart of the Problem
December 14, 2016 - Mending a broken heart: New advanced heart patch developed
November 30, 2016 - Adult stem cell types’ heart repair potential probed
November 29, 2016 - Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice
November 26, 2016 - It’s how you splice it: Scientists discover possible origin of muscle, heart defects
November 20, 2016 - Scientists create heart cells better, faster, stronger
November 13, 2016 - Age at cancer diagnosis may affect the risk of death from heart disease
November 10, 2016 - 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
October 24, 2016 - Bacterial genes boost current in human cells
October 19, 2016 - Technology may aid at-home heart attack diagnosis, patient monitoring
October 14, 2016 - Calcium supplements may damage the heart
October 12, 2016 - Platelet biomechanics sheds light on coronary disease
September 29, 2016 - In a Heartbeat
September 21, 2016 - Immune cells can regulate blood pressure
September 18, 2016 - Light tames lethal heart disorders in mice and virtual humans
September 13, 2016 - Scientists find culprit responsible for calcified blood vessels in kidney disease
September 9, 2016 - Risk factors for congenital heart defects may lie both inside and outside the heart
September 9, 2016 - Real life broken heart – strong negative emotions can trigger lethal heart attacks
September 8, 2016 - Hydrogen sulphide could help people with diabetes recover from heart conditions
September 4, 2016 - Stem cell breakthrough unlocks mysteries associated with inherited heart condition
August 31, 2016 - Heart muscle made from stem cells aid precision cardiovascular medicine
August 19, 2016 - Studying blood flow dynamics to identify the heart of vessel failure
August 16, 2016 - Heart bypass without surgery? — AGGF1 induces therapeutic angiogenesis through autophagy
August 11, 2016
- Scientists created a fun way to take care of your heat after a cardiac event
August 10, 2016 - Researchers are pioneering tools for heart regeneration
August 9, 2016 - Building a smart cardiac patch
June 27, 2016 - Lab-grown nerve cells make heart cells throb
June 16, 2016 - Chest Pain is Common but Actual Severity is Rare
June 14, 2016 - Combination of cells and genes repairs damaged heart tissues in animal models of MI
June 1, 2016 - Mouse study links heart regeneration to telomere length
May 30, 2016 - Telling irregularities
May 30, 2016 - New study uncovers mechanisms underlying how diabetes damages the heart
May 27, 2016 - Heart defect prediction technology could lead to earlier, more informed treatment
May 19, 2016 - Gene helps prevent heart attack, stroke — and may offer way to block effects of aging
May 17, 2016 - Major new global study identifies a safer treatment of acute stroke
May 11, 2016 - Researchers discover the molecular mechanisms that produce the heart’s contractile structure
May 10, 2016 - Mechanics of a Heartbeat are Controlled by Molecular Strut in Heart Muscle Cells
April 28, 2016 - Micro heart muscle created from stem cells
April 21, 2016
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