NYC’s Only Medical Center Offering Promising Therapy as Part of CUPID Clinical Trial

Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are setting out to answer that question in a first-ever clinical trial …

Atherosclerosis is inflammation gone awry: 2 articles in the FASEB Journal identify new and important regulators of blood vessel injury

Even if you eat right and exercise regularly, chances are high that you’ll still die of a heart attack or stroke. But thanks to new findings by researchers from …

How do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats? Scientists have long suspected that the answer to the so-called “French paradox” lies in red wine. Now, the results of a new study bring them closer to understanding why.

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Non-invasive CT scan proves safe and accurate in uncovering early signs of heart disease
BOSTON – A significant number of patients who suffer a heart attack never have any warning signs. For many of these individuals, the source of the problem is noncalcified plaque, a buildup of soft deposits em…

A drug developed to fight cancer is showing early promise as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report May 19 at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Toronto, Canada.

In the first human trial of sorafenib (Nexava…

Less-Invasive Procedure for Those Previously Untreatable

In the hope of reaching a formerly untreatable patient group, clinician-researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are leading the minimally invasive Phase II EVEREST clinical trial with the aim of treating …

New genetic models could be key to understanding underlying mechanisms

A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital provides much-needed insight into the molecular mechanisms that cause arrythmia, or irregular heartbeat, and how it triggers sudden cardiac death, one of the nation’s leadi…

A first in stem cell research

Dutch researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute have succeeded in growing large numbers of stem cells from adult human hearts into new heart muscle cells. A breakthrough in stem cell research. Until now, it was necessary to use embry…

Two new studies provide evidence that differences in people’s blood levels of C reactive protein (CRP) stem in part from natural variation in known metabolic genes. The researchers report their findings in the May American Journal of Human Genetics, a publication of Cell Press.

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Non-Surgical Procedure Permits Swift Recovery and Discharge from Hospital

Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn’t involve open heart surgery.
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