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Holiday Heartburn Or Heart Attack? Recognizing The Difference Could Save Your Life
22.11.2008 04:06
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You know the drill: join the family for feasting on a high-fat, carbohydrate-filled meal followed by a generous slice of pumpkin pie. Regret brought on by the growing storm in your stomach begins before you even make your way to the couch. While some people sleep off their heartburn, others are roused by alarming symptoms. The pain in their chest is it heartburn or heart attack? The symptoms are similar, but the health consequences differ dramatically.
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Cardiology
Surgeons Inject Concentrated Stem Cells Directly Into Patient's Heart In New Clinical Trial
22.11.2008 04:06
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Surgeons at The Methodist Hospital in Houston were the first in the nation Thursday to inject highly-concentrated stem cells directly into a patient's heart, providing an intense, direct hit on damaged heart tissue. In an investigational study of new heart failure treatments, this promising new technique may be more effective in regenerating healthy heart tissue than current methods that use a catheter to put standard stem cells through the bloodstream into the heart.
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Cardiology
Heart Patients Are Often Not Treated In Accordance With Guidelines
22.11.2008 04:06
medicalnewstoday.com
Many patients with cardiovascular disease are not given adequate drug therapy. This is the result of an international study. In the current edition of Deutsches Ãrzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[45]: 769-75), Uwe Zeimer et al. present the German results of this prospective, one-year survey. 512 doctors in Germany took part in the study. They enrolled 5594 patients in all, of whom 89.2% suffered from one or more cardiovascular diseases and 10.
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