Heart disease is the number one killer in the world and India carries more than its share of this burden. Moreover, the problem is set to rise: it is predicted that by 2010 India’s population will suffer approximately 60% of the world’s heart disease. Read The Full Article…The Worst Luck [...] Read more »

In response to a study – funded partly by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) – published today in the journal Radiology, which for the first time shows bleeding inside the heart after people have suffered a heart attack, Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the BHF said: “For centuries we have relied on [...] Read more »

Scientists have discovered a variant of a gene that increases the risk heart failure seven-fold is most common amongst people in South East Asia, where the disease is a leading cause of death. The study was the work of an international team of 25 scientists from four countries [...] Read more »

Scientists in Glasgow, Scotland, will try to find out whether injecting cells developed from human fetuses into the brains of patients who have had a stroke might help them. If the stem cells can help the brain regenerate areas damaged by their stroke, patients would then hopefully regain their mobility and mental function. Read The [...] Read more »

A study published in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that salt reduction may offer cardioprotective effects beyond blood pressure reduction. The study was led by Kacie Dickinson of Flinders University, South Australia. “Reducing your salt intake provides more benefit than a decrease in blood pressure,” [...] Read more »

The national rollout of vascular screening has been plunged into confusion after the Department of Health initiated moves for an eleventh-hour change in risk score, http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk has found. Read The Full Article…UK Vascular Screening Plans In Chaos As Government Looks To Change Risk Score Read more »

Patients in the United States with arrhythmias, also known as irregular heart rhythms, may now benefit from treatment with a new state-of-the art catheter, designed to reduce char and thrombus formation during ablation and give physicians improved range of motion during procedures to eliminate abnormal heart rhythms. The new EZ STEER® THERMOCOOL® Bi-Directional [...] Read more »

W.L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced that Peter A. Soukas, MD, interventional cardiologist from Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, enrolled the first patient in the Gore EMBOLDEN Clinical Study* on January 6, 2009. The first patient was recently symptomatic and greater than 90 years old. The greater than 95 percent [...] Read more »

Scientists have discovered a variant of a gene that increases the risk heart failure seven-fold is most common amongst people in South East Asia, where the disease is a leading cause of death. The study was the work of an international team of 25 scientists from four countries [...] Read more »

A study published in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that salt reduction may offer cardioprotective effects beyond blood pressure reduction. The study was led by Kacie Dickinson of Flinders University, South Australia. “Reducing your salt intake provides more benefit than a decrease in blood pressure,” [...] Read more »