Heart Muscle News
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The stress and complications from a lengthy prostate operation assisted by an Intuitive Surgical Inc. robot hastened a patient’s death from heart disease, a doctor testified.
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Tissue from the hearts of mice morphed into muscle cells with the ability to beat and form electrical connections, in an experiment that may lead to new therapy for more than 5 million Americans with heart failure .
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A single gene, inserted into the apex of the heart, can convert normal cardiac muscle cells into those that control its electrical function, a study found.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is applying Shinya Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery in stem cells to identify heart risks linked to experimental drugs earlier in the development process.
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Muscle damaged by heart attacks can be repaired by an injectable gel that forms scaffolding, attracting stem cells and blood vessels in a study that may lead to a new method for reducing heart failure.
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Israeli scientists for the first time succeeded in transforming the skin cells of heart-failure patients into healthy heart-muscle cells, suggesting that it may be possible to repair the organ with a person’s own tissue.
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An implantable defibrillator using wires that may pose less risk than widely sold devices shocked faulty hearts back into rhythm in almost all cases, according to a 60-patient study funded by the product’s maker.
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Suffering from painful nerve damage in his feet, Charles Groomes was prescribed a daily dose of 205 milligrams of Oxycontin and oxycodone in 2007. His doctor wrote that it was the most he was comfortable prescribing -- more, he said, than anyone without cancer should take.
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Heart attacks and chest pain suffered by workers can also be agonizing for employers who are hit with productivity losses of as much as $52,473 per disability claim.
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Novartis AG is developing a version of a hormone found in pregnant women in a bid to reduce deaths from heart failure.
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