Many health-minded individuals understand that eating fried or overcooked foods is unhealthy due to the chemical transition of normally stable fats to trans fats that have been shown to dramatically increase heart attack risk. Researchers ...
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Humans have been consuming omega-3 fats from natural fish, nut and seed sources for countless generations. Our core genetic structure depends on a regular supply of the long chain omega-3 fats EPA and DHA to form cell wall structures and ...
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Fried foods damage your body and brain in many different ways, and it's not just a long term consequence, but a short term detriment as well. Just as a car needs good clean oil to run efficiently and not break down, your body needs food ...
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US-based BioVentrix has announced the successful completion of it 50th clinical case using the Revivent myocardial anchoring system in a 74-year-old male patient at the OLV Hospital in Aalst, Belgium. The case comes on the heels of other ...
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The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released new U.S. cardiovascular prevention guidelines to prevent heart attack and stroke. "These new guidelines represent the best of what scientific research can tell us ...
Being overweight or obese are risk factors for heart attack and heart disease even if people don't have metabolic syndrome, Danish researchers say. Dr. Borge G. Nordestgaard, chief physician in clinical biochemistry at Copenhagen ...
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The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released new U.S. cardiovascular prevention guidelines to prevent heart attack and stroke. "These new guidelines represent the best of what scientific research can tell us ...
Austria-based Miracor Medical Systems has announced that 30 patients have been successfully treated with no device-related adverse events using its PICSO (pressure-controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion) system designed to improve ...
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Men taking testosterone had a 29 percent greater risk of death, heart attack and stroke compared with a "real world" population of men, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. Michael Ho, a cardiologist with the VA's Eastern Colorado Health ...
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For many industries, innovation helps to drive down product prices. Over the past few decades, entry-level computers have decreased in price from thousands of dollars to only a few hundred. 1980 saw the debut of IBM's personal computer, ...
TherOx, a medical device company, has presented results from the investigational device exemption (IDE) pilot study on its second-generation supersaturated oxygen (SSO2) therapy system at the 25th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...
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US-based CardioKinetix has announced the successful treatment of first two Chinese heart failure patients with its Parachute ventricular partitioning device, a minimally invasive treatment for patients with heart failure caused by damage to ...
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Biotechnology firm Alexion Pharmaceuticals has secured approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan for the use of its Soliris (eculizumab) drug to treat pediatric and adult patients with atypical hemolytic ...
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US-based medical device company TherOx has successfully completed the patient enrollment in its multicenter investigational device exemption (IDE) pilot study to evaluate the second generation system that delivers supersaturated oxygen ...
Is it something on an elevated platform that prevents people from falling? Is it that low-profile metal strip that runs along the freeway? Or maybe nothing significant comes to mind? Unfortunately, the latter is often the case, especially ...
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