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Heart Currents: News and Resources for the Heart
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What's in the news about heart disease, cholesterol, CRP, and all topics about the heart
- Added on: Nov 11th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Stephen Parker
- Listed in: Medicine General Health
- Tags: Heart cholesterol heart disease heart attack diagnosis chest pain
Recent Posts
Mini Heart Attacks Lessen Damage From Major Ones
Mini Heart Attacks Lessen Damage From Major Ones ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008) — Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage cause...
Music and the Heart
Joyful Music in Tune With Heart Health.By Amanda Gardner.HealthDay Reporter .TUESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Throw on a little Bach, Beatles or Beyonce, and then sit back and relax in the knowledge that your blood vessels are expanding wide open...
Flu Shots Can Help Prevent Cardiac Death
The three-dimensional structure of influenza virus from electron tomography. The viruses are about 120 nanometers -- about one ten thousandth of a millimeter -- in diameter..Patients with heart disease ought to get flu shots, say the American Heart A...
Heart Disease Reversed in Mice
November 30, 2008Heart disease 'reversed in mice'.Tiny fragments of genetic material can play a role in heart disease..Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects. .The study provides hard evide...
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Heart muscle with purkinje fibers on the surface of heart muscle fibers. Purkinje fibers are modified cardiac muscle fibers that originate from the atrioventricular node and spread into the two ventricles. They transmit the electrical impulse from th...
Pericarditis
Pericarditis is a swelling and irritation of the pericardium, the thin sac-like membrane that surrounds your heart. Pericarditis often causes chest pain and sometimes other symptoms. Pericarditis may be acute or chronic. The sharp chest pain associat...
