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More People Are Living With Rather Than Dying From Hypertension
First, the bad news: More American adults have hypertension (high blood pressure) and prehypertension than ever before.
Now, the good news: The percentage of those getting treated for and controlling high blood pressure has also increased....   >>More...

Artificial Heart Technology Holds Promise For Alternatives
Patients on the waiting list for a heart transplant soon may have more options thanks to a new device being developed by the Texas Heart Institute in collaboration with two University of Houston professors.....>>More...

Inpatient smoking cessation programs ‘valuable but underutilized’

SHospital-based smoking cessation programs are effective and should be made more widely available to patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction (MI), US researchers believe.

Their recommendation is based on data from The Prospective Registry Evaluating Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction Events and Recovery (PREMIER) -.  >> More...

Heart Repair In The Developing Heart Of Embryo Or Fetus
If the heart becomes diseased during its embryonic/fetal development, it can regenerate itself to such an extent that it is fully functional by birth, provided some of the heart cells remain healthy....   >>More...

Ranolazine Safe And Effective For Angina
Researchers from Syracuse Preventive Medicine, NY, USA discuss a new drug called ranolazine that has been deemed a safe and effective treatment for chronic stable angina. Drs Stephen Nash and David Nash discuss this new treatment option in a New Drug Class paper published in The Lancet.....  >>More...


Hope That Stem Cells May Heal Damaged Hearts

Recent studies indicate that infusing hearts with stem cells taken from bone marrow could improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction (tissue damage that results from a heart attack). But in a recent systematic review, Cochrane Researchers concluded that more clinical trials are needed to assess the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for heart patients, as well as studies to establish how these treatments work...  >> More....