A wireless, battery-less pacemaker that can be implanted directly into a patient’s heart is being introduced by researchers from Rice University and their colleagues at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) at the IEEE’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Honolulu June 4-9.
The pacemaker designed by the Rice lab of electrical and...
The benefits of bystander CPR or use of an automatic defibrillator on a patient suffering from cardiac arrest may last for up to a year, a new study found, with the two techniques also helping to lower the long-term risk of death, brain damage and other health issues.
The Danish study,...
While so-called “chocoholics” may have gotten a bad rap over the years, a new study has found that eating a small amount of chocolate every week or so may decrease your risk of developing a serious type of irregular heart rhythm.
The study, published in the journal Heart, used data collected...
Armed with hand-held breathalyzers and EKGs, German scientists put in a hard month’s work at Munich’s Oktoberfest as they mingled with thousands of men and women who were “under the stress of alcohol,” to use the scientific term.
Now they’re reporting in the European Heart Journal that, after controlling for age,...
The dangers that secondhand smoke pose to growing children and unborn babies is well documented, but now researchers are adding another frightening health risk to the list — genetic changes associated with a common type of childhood cancer.
The study, published in this month’s edition of Cancer Research, is the first...
A growing number of younger U.S. adults are being hospitalized for strokes, and a new study suggests that’s at least in part because more of them have risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.
The most common type of stroke, known as an ischemic stroke, occurs when a clot...
People who deal with chronic stress were dealt a double blow by researchers recently, as a new study claims that they not only are more likely to pack on the pounds, but will also have greater difficultly trying to lose them. A research team in the U.K. used hair to...
For overweight people with heart disease, trying and failing to lose weight may be more dangerous than not losing weight at all.
A new retrospective study has concluded that patients whose weight fluctuates the most die twice as quickly or have twice the risk of heart attack or stroke compared to...
Cholesterol levels and saturated fat in the diet may not play as a big a role in heart disease as previously thought, a new editorial suggests.
But not all experts agree that it’s time to shift the focus away from cholesterol levels and saturated fat.
In the editorial, the authors argued that...
Have an upset stomach? A new study suggests that chili peppers might help. It may sound bizarre, but researchers at the University of Connecticut found that a chemical in chili peppers played a role in the calming the gut, at least in mice.
Apparently, there’s a link to marijuana. The scientists...
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