FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG | Crave – CNET

FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG | Crave – CNET.

Regenerative medicine update: grow back a heart

Researchers get cardiac muscle cells to grow, repair heart attack damage
John Timmer, arstechnica.com

djneightHeart attacks cause both long- and short-term problems. In the short-term, the death of cardiac muscle cells can cause a critical drop in the heart’s ability to function. Over the long haul, problems arise because the damage is largely…

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How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know
Eliza Barclay, npr.org

Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds.

Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre…

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Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health
David Schultz, npr.org

Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep.

Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments.

Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for…

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Health problems of victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plant take years to appear

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Chernobyl radiation map from CIA handbook, svg’d by User:Sting, and re-anglified by me (to the same strange names used in the original). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support.

For Japan, Chernobyl may hint at future – Boston.com.

When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care

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Chagas heart, radiology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin’s disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy are significantly more likely to die of heart disease in the years following treatment due to the toxic effects of these treatments on the cardio vascular system.

Cancer Survivors Need Heart Disease Screening : Internal Medicine News.

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