Tag: Myocardial infarction

Regenerative medicine update: grow back a heart

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

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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Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net

I can’t sleep for more than 30 min­utes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the dura­tion of the flight, no mat­ter how long it is. I won­der if this neck-propper-upper would help?

Enter the UpRight Sleeper, a neck support that makes…

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Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

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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