Approaching heart failure like an autoimmune condition could offer new ways to improve patient survival.
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Life-changing advances in cardiovascular medicine enabled Cheney to live a productive life well beyond what many heart patients experience. But prevention is the most effective tool of all.
A ‘heart patch’ recently received enthusiastic coverage in the media. A scientist who carried out similar experiments is surprised.
Weight-loss jabs might help with certain heart conditions, but their benefit is being overstated.
As hip-hop turns 50, an unfortunate reality is that so many of its pioneering artists never live to see much more than 50 years themselves, a professor of hip-hop writes.
Parsing the risk of myocarditis from viral infection versus vaccination is challenging, and researchers are intensely studying the various factors that are at play.
The effect of stents in patients with heart failure has been unknown – until now.
The negative health effects of Y chromosome loss could be one potential reason women tend to live longer than men.
The heart used in the first pig-human transplant was infected with a pig virus. This reveals that using other species as organ donors may not provide a solution for organ shortages.
It’s a love song cliché and a Hollywood staple, but your heart really might race or skip a beat when you feel love and attraction.
Heart failure patients who took this drug were 22% less likely to die from heart-related causes.
One in ten people are born prematurely.
Cialis may be able to stop heart failure worsening and even reverse some of the disease.
A recent study on the brains of pigs suggested that some activity could be restored even after the porkers had been dead for four hours. A neuroscientist who specializes in brain death explains.
People generally assume all heart-related death is due to heart attack. But there are differences between cardiac arrest, heart attack and heart failure – and none are synonymous with death.
Big data shows that we may need to rethink heart attack treatments.
Anti-inflammatory pain killers such as ibuprofen should no longer be available for sale in grocery stores, but instead restricted to pharmacies.
When George Michael passed away last year news reports all over the world announced the cause as heart failure. It’s unlikely this really was the cause.
Some 85% of research into drugs and treatments ends up on the cutting room floor but not all of that should.
In fact, even a happy heart can break.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, University of Stirling
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Senior Epidemiologist, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Cardiac Pathophysiology, University of Manchester
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Co-director, Vascular Research Centre, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Research assistant, Institute for Public Health, Aarhus University
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Cardiologist and PhD Candidate, Adelaide University
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Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
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Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
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Medical doctor, PhD candidate in cardiology, Monash University
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University of Stirling
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Clinical Lecturer, King's College London
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Science Strategy and Operations Manager, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University
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Professor, Philosophy, Dalhousie University