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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine has created a podcast for World Heart Day tomorrow. The podcast includes interviews with:
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD — Editor in Chief, Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine
Sidney Smith, MD — Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation
Sania Nishtar, MD — Chairperson of the Foundations’ Advisory Board of [...]
Living with very little money is not easy to say the least but it also comes with a number of health consequences because of lack of health insurance and healthcare. Researchers have recently found that those living below the poverty line are more likely to have elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which can [...]
MIT’s Technology Review has an excellent article discussing a new concept for artificial hearts - continuous flow pumps. Advantages of continuous flow also known as rotor-style or axial pumps:
Smaller size
More durable
Better response to changes in the body’s need for varying blood flows
Read more.
Technorati Tags: artificial heart, heart, heart disease, disease, illness, health, heart transplant, [...]
Only THREE days left until World Heart Day this Sunday, September 24. Visit the World Heart Day website to learn how you can organize activities, download a leaflet, and browse the photo album. This year’s theme is - How Young is Your Heart?
A healthy heart is vital for living life to the full, regardless of [...]
Three separate studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine have shown little to no effect of bone marrow-derived progenitor cells on repairing the heart muscle following a myocardial infarction.
The studies focused on damage caused by heart attacks, which weaken the heart muscle and reduce its ability to pump blood. Researchers looked [...]
Most everyone knows how to live a hearty, healthy life. The trouble is feeling motivated to do so. Here are a couple of articles from the how-to series at Problogger that might give you a chuckle and some ideas too.
How to Live a Short, Miserable, Unhealthy Life at Your Healthiest Life
How to jump [...]
Olivia at TappingLuau.com has a wonderful list of 27 tips for how to survive your young husband’s first (unexpected) heart attack. I especially appreciate tip #21.
21. Trust your instincts. If you think he’s having a heart attack, he probably is. Again—trust your intuition!
If you’re wrong, you’ve lost very little, maybe looking a little foolish. If [...]
This week’s Grand Rounds 2(52), a survey of the health and medicine blogging community, is now available at Tundra Medicine Dreams. The Tundra PA (physician assistant) writes from Southwest Alaska and I envy her so!
This week’s post that is particularly important for A Hearty Life readers is from Tech Medicine.
How to take your daily [...]
Back in May, I wrote about University of Montana women’s golf coach Joanne Steele who suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and was on the heart transplant list. I’m excited to report that she received a heart transplant yesterday!
Her husband Cory Steele said:
The operation went as well as possible, but the next 48 hours of recovery time [...]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) will be the first sports league starting next month to begin standardized cardiac screening.
The N.B.A.’s screening process will include a physical examination, blood work and three heart tests: an electrocardiogram, a resting echocardiogram and a stress echocardiogram. Players will also be asked to provide personal and family medical histories to [...]
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