The early stages of coronary artery disease in young smokers can be reversed quickly if they choose to put out their cigarettes for good, according to a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging study in the December Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Max Planck scientists reveal the molecular details of regeneration in newts.
Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly younger patients who have the same ailments.
There is as much as a four- to five-fold increased relative risk for late thrombosis, or blood clot formation, in patients with drug-eluting stents compared to those with bare-metal stents, according to a Cleveland Clinic-led meta-analysis appearing in the December issue of the American Journal of Medicine. This is the first published analysis of its kind.
Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues at four other medical centers have launched a $10 million multi-year study to identify genes that may contribute to early atherosclerosis.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital compared the effects of a variety of immunosuppressive agents on cardiovascular events in a large sample of RA patients.
People who experience their first-ever bout of depression after having a heart attack are at greater risk for future heart problems than are patients who either don?t become clinically depressed after the medical emergency or who were depressed even before the incident, new research shows.
With nearly 21 million Americans today suffering from diabetes and as many as 6.2 million unaware that they have the disease, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) launched a new multi-media national health education campaign on diabetes awareness.
People with poor memory may face a higher risk of cardiovascular or heart-related diseases like heart attack or myocardial infarction, MI, revealed by researchers from the Edinburgh University.
Discovery of a master cardiac stem cell that appears to give rise to all the major parts of the heart, stem cell treatments for coronary disease will establish another major step in the medical science.