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Genetic testing can foretell cardiovascular diseases

Genetic testing can foretell cardiovascular diseases

According to researchers, genomic sequencing solves the dual purpose of confirming diagnosis and expanding treatment...

24 Aug 2017 7:49 AM IST

The number of cases of rheumatic heart disease in India was 13.17 million followed by China with 7.07 million (Photo: Pixabay)

Educational degree keeps away heart attacks, says study

Educated people are less likely to smoke and do more exercise and subsequently have better heart health.

31 Aug 2017 4:42 PM IST

The rate of heart attacks or stroke is highest in patients with lung cancer (Photo: Pixabay)

Cancer patients have more risk of heart attacks post diagnosis

Study shows diagnosis of cancer is associated with more than doubling risk of stroke as it increases risk of blood...

16 Aug 2017 4:32 PM IST

He was saved by an open heart surgery (Photo: AP)

Man drives 20 km to hospital with nail in his heart

Doug decided not to pull it out as he had seen Steve Irwin die after pulling out a stingray's stinger from his heart.

16 Aug 2017 3:54 PM IST

Researchers devised developed a way of producing three dimensional (3D) data to show the cardiac conduction system (Photo: Pixabay)

Source of human heartbeat revealed in 3D

Experts say data enables one understand complex relationships between cardiac conduction system and rest of heart.

5 Aug 2017 6:16 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Organ Donation Day: Facts to know when looking for organ...

The ratio gap between organ donors and the patients in need of the organ is huge.

13 Aug 2017 10:59 AM IST

The good kind of heart growth is very different from the harmful enlargement of the heart that occurs during heart failure (Photo: Pixabay)

Protein that mimics exercise effects may treat heart failure, says...

Researchers discover protein cardiotrophin 1 (CT1) that can trick heart into pumping more blood, just as it does in...

10 Aug 2017 9:06 AM IST

Zebrafish and newborn mammals, including mice and humans, have large numbers of MNDCMs and a relatively robust ability to regenerate heart muscle (Photo: Pixabay)

There are people who do not have permanent heart muscle loss, says...

According to researchers some people can naturally recover both heart muscle mass and function.

8 Aug 2017 10:46 AM IST

Heart diseases increase because people think of attending to it after the holiday season is over as they do not want to spoil the festive mood. (Photo: Pixabay)

Heart surgeries performed in China using 3D printing tech

It is the first time 3D printing technology is used in Hunan for paediatric cardiovascular surgery

22 Jan 2017 9:22 PM IST

This system allowed the researchers to strip rat cells while preserving the lining matrix (Photo: AFP)

New drugs can be tested on tiny heart made from rat's organ

Researchers used a technique called 4-Flow cannulation, which introduces solution not just into the arteries but into...

13 July 2017 10:26 AM IST

The machine scientists at Bhaba Atomic Research Centre have developed a small electro cardiogram (ECG). (Photo: Pixabay)

Indian scientists create credit card-sized ECG device

The 12 channel device was developed by the scientists at Bhaba Atomic Research Centre

16 March 2017 11:44 AM IST

Because of the hearts inability to repair itself, damage caused by a heart attack causes permanent scarring. (Photo: Pixabay)

Now, algorithm to identify cause of killer cardiac disease

Scientists have developed a novel non-invasive algorithm to identify the origin of irregular electrical 'storm waves' in...

3 March 2017 4:14 PM IST