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Transcendental meditation reduces congestive heart failure, new study shows
03-01-2007 · EurekAlert!A widely practiced, stress-reducing meditation technique significantly decreases the severity of congestive heart failure, according to a first-of-its-kind randomized study published in Ethnicity & Disease (Winter 2007).
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What do marathoners and heart failure patients have in common? More than you think according to new findings by physiologists at Columbia University Medical Center. The new study shows that the fatigue that marathoners and other extreme athletes feel at the end of a race is caused by a tiny leak inside their muscles that probably also saps the energy from patients with heart failure.
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As a new wave of stem cell research continues, cardiologists are trying to tap into the self-renewing cells' life-saving potential. Scientists have performed the first US controlled, randomized Phase I clinical trial using a three-dimensional guided catheter system to deliver muscular stem cells to the heart. The study was presented today at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit in New Orleans.
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- Immune system cells linked to heart failure
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- Antioxidant overload may underlie a heritable human disease
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Despite the popular notion that antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, offer health-promoting benefits by protecting against damaging free radicals, a new study in the Aug. 10 issue of the journal Cell reveals that, in fact, balance is the key. The researchers show in mice that an overload of natural antioxidants can actually lead the heart to failure.
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Mechanical "artificial hearts" can be used to return severely failing hearts to their normal function, potentially removing the need for heart transplantation, according to new research. The mechanical devices, known as Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), are currently used in patients with very severe heart failure whilst they await transplantation. The new study shows that using an LVAD combined with certain drug therapies can shrink the enlarged heart and enable it to function normally once the LVAD is removed.
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- Study finds heart failure is rare among leukemia patients on imatinib
09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
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