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• in Lifestyle
  Study Shows Risk of Heart Failure Reduced By Stem Cell Treatment
  Experimental stem cell therapy cuts risk of future occurences of heart disease by 80 percent
  by vicfizzlebottom / on Nov 16, 2011
• in Politics
  Army Recruit Dies Due To Extreme Dieting
  A potential Army recruit dies due to extreme dieting.
  by dsteelman / on Mar 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “heart failure”

 

• The Arrowe Park Hospital Neglect ends now…

  
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  This is the text of my latest email to APH:- Let me explain this as simply as possible. The crux of my complaint is that Dr. Newall has done absolutely nothing for me, in terms of treating my condition, which is potentially life-threatening, in 4 months. I have read two research papers on the subject of aortic valve ...
  2 days ago

• Arrowe Park Hospital – further down the pan…

  
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  This is their reply to my protest that taking two bloody months to resolve my complaint is ludicrous:- Thank you for your email.  I have spoken with the Lead Nurse for the Division of Medicine and he has read your recent email.  As your complaint is fairly complex it was decided to give a period of 45 days for ...
  2 days ago

• Patients’ Skin Cells Turned Into Heart Muscle Cells to Repair Their Damaged Hearts

  
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  For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue.The research, which is published online May 22 in the European Heart Journal, opens up the ...
  4 days ago

• Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle:

  
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  Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.The researchers, based in Haifa, Israel, said there were still many years of testing and refining ahead. But the ...
  4 days ago

• Israeli scientists create beating heart tissue from skin cells

  
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  Skin cells have been made into beating heart tissue by a team of scientists in Israel, who hope this will help patients with heart failure.
  4 days ago

• HeartWares HVAD implant wins expanded European approval

  
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  We have good news to tell you regarding HeartWare Internationals ( $HTWR ) ventricular assist system. The Framingham, MA and Sydney-based company gained a CE mark addendum in Europe that will allow long-term use of the implant for all patients at risk of dying from refractory, end-stage heart failure. An expanded ...
  4 days ago

• Skin cells converted into beating heart muscle cells

  
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  Scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, beating, new heart muscle cells, capable of integrating with existing heart tissue. The research, Derivation and cardiomyocyte differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells from heart ...
  5 days ago

• Arrowe Park Hospital arrogance…

  
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  It’s now over 30 hours since I emailed my complaint to APH, along with supporting documents. I have twice – once yesterday, and again this morning – asked them to acknowledge receipt. They’ve failed to do so, or even reply, in either instance. WTF is wrong with these people? Anybody got a small tactical ...
  5 days ago

• Passenger dies mid-air during Mexico-Belgium flight

  
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  SHANNON, IRELAND (BNO NEWS) — A Jetairfly passenger plane flying from Mexico to Belgium made an emergency landing in Ireland on Wednesday morning after one of its passengers became unwell in mid-air, the airline said. The passenger was pronounced dead upon landing.Jetairfly flight 208 was flying from Cancún ...
  5 days ago

• Telehealth cuts readmission rates, earns system a speedy return on investment

  
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  Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, Pa., reports that using telemedicine technology has reduced readmissions in its 26 Pennsylvania facilities--and also netted a 100 percent return on investment in just two months. St. Vincents success story echoes the findings of Geisinger Health Plans two-year study of home ...
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• Israeli Breakthrough: Scientists Repair Heart Through Skin Cells

  
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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. The cells from two men with the disease, once genetically reprogrammed, were able to blend in ...
  5 days ago

• Beating heart muscle created from heart patients skin

  
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  Scientists have for the first time been able to take skin cells from heart patients and turn them into healthy heart muscle cells that can integrate with existing heart tissue. read more
  5 days ago

• Beating heart muscle created from heart patients skin

  
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  Scientists have for the first time been able to take skin cells from heart patients and turn them into healthy heart muscle cells that can integrate with existing heart tissue. read more
  5 days ago

• Israeli scientists open prospect of repairing damaged hearts

  
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  Tel Aviv, May 23 (IANS) In a unique feat, Israeli scientists reprogrammed skin cells from heart failure patients to grow into healthy, new heart muscle cells capable of integrating with existing heart tissue.The research opens up the prospect of treating heart failure patients with their own, human-induced ...
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• Skin Cells Turned Into Healthy Heart Muscle In A Patient, For First Time

  
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  For the first time, researchers have successfully taken skin cells from a heart failure patient and reprogrammed them to be new heart muscle cells that can integrate into the existing heart. The research, just published in the European Heart Journal, will make it possible to treat heart failure by using the patients ...
  6 days ago

• What If Damaged Hearts Could Heal Themselves?

  
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  Medical research must be one of the truly interesting, rewarding and intriguing fields to work in. Not only do you get to spend your days refining new innovations that will change the health outlook and improve the lives of millions, but your waking hours are spent in a constant state of wonder and creativity asking ...
  6 days ago

• Patients skin cells turned into heart muscle cells to repair th...

  
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  For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue.
  6 days ago

• Statins May Inhibit Cancer After Transplant, Study Finds

  
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  Another day, another study about how statins are saving the world, one study at a time- this time, the cholesterol-lowering drugs are seem to have been pegged for a novel use. In recent studies, statins have emerged as of potential benefit to everyone over the age of 50 , and have also shown to be helpful in ...
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• Text of Formal complaint made to Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral.

  
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  If anyone is interested this is the final text of my complaint, which was supported by copies of my letters to Dr. Newall in March and April, which he has ignored. It’s broadly similar to the published draft – just a little more detailed, and stroppier! Complaints ...
  6 days ago

• Formal complaint made to Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral.

  
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  I have, at 11.49 today, filed a formal complaint about the conduct of cardiologist Dr. Nick Newall with Arrowe Park Hospital, by email. I’ve been told that it might take 35 days to resolve, and I’ve pointed out that this matter is actually urgent, and I’ve already been waiting four months to see this guy ...
  6 days ago

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