Grafting helps normalise heartbeats
A new study has made a breakthrough in muscle grafting. Researchers have made a major advance in their bid to regenerate damaged heart by grafting human cardiac muscle cells into guinea pig hearts....
View ArticleIs fasting the new fad diet in town?
Fasting for religious purposes is common in India. The month of Shravan has just concluded and the month of Ramzan is on – in both of which fasting is an integral part. Doctors say the practice does...
View ArticleScientists find protein responsible for heart failure!
Researchers have unravelled how an out-of-tune protein precipitates heart failure by causing its muscle to malfunction. Scientists have known for a while that several heart proteins – troponin I is one...
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Why women are likelier to die of heart attacks
A recent study suggests that young women have higher death rates than men due to heart attacks because of the fact that they don’t undergo chest pains usually associated with disease. According to...
View ArticleHeart attacks doubly dangerous for women
There’s a misconception that heart attack kills more men more than women. A new research suggests that women are likelier to die of myocardial infarction (MI). Two possible reasons for this is women...
View ArticleLow-dose aspirin effective in preventing blood clots
Low-dose aspirin could save the lives of people with a history of blood clot. It is a cheap and effective way to prevent potentially deadly blood clots forming in patients’ legs or the lungs. The...
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Expert advice: Warning signs of a heart attack
A heart attack is the death of, or damage to, part of the heart muscle due to severe reduction or stoppage of blood supply to the heart muscle. Most heart attacks are the final result of coronary heart...
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Know your heart health terms – part 2
Ischemia: Ischemia is inadequate oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Ischemia is caused because of a shortage of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle due to narrowing or blockage of one or more of the...
View ArticleAspirin may cause age-related blindness?
The risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in older people, may increase due to aspirin, a drug for prevention of cardiovascular disease, says an Australian study....
View ArticleDid stress cause a 24 year old to have a heart attack?
Today, the mainstream media is ablaze with a story about a Mumbai-based 24 year old called Anirudh Singh who was suffering from acute myocardial infarction – doc talk for a heart attack. This news has...
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Dark chocolate keeps heart disease and other health problems away!
There has been ample research to suggest that dark chocolate has immense health benefits. It’s supposed to keep heart disease away, lowers blood pressure, lowers cholesterol and do we really need to...
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Now 3 out of 10 people in India have painless heart attacks!
For years chest pain (angina) has been considered symptomatic almost synonymous with heart attacks (myocardial infarction). A recent study suggests this might not be the case. Many patients taken to...
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Fish a day keeps diabetes away!
The dietary habits of the Spanish population suggest that eating fish is a good way of keeping diabetes at bay. University of Valencia’s Mercedes Sotos Prieto, who conducted the study involving 945 men...
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Being young and healthy doesn’t reduce heart attack risk to zero
People who do not have the traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis or build-up of fat in artery walls show discrete signs for it, new research says. “The proportion of young, apparently healthy...
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Heart Attacks – What you should know
What happens in a heart attack? Most heart attacks are caused by a blood clot that blocks one of the coronary arteries. The coronary arteries bring blood and oxygen to the heart. If the blood flow is...
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Why brown rice is better than white rice (Video)
Want to lose weight and still eat rice? Just switch to brown rice instead of white. Apart from being more nutritious, it also has fat-burning properties. What is brown rice? How is it different from...
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Obese people always likelier to suffer a heart attack
Obese people, irrespective of whether they suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar, are always at a risk of suffering from a heart attack and ischemic heart disease.Borge...
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Dental bugs could give you a heart attack!
Dental bugs seeping into the bloodstream can cause blood clots and trigger endocarditis or inflammation of heart’s inner tissues, which could be fatal. Infective endocarditis is treated with surgery or...
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Dark chocolate keeps heart disease and other health problems away!
There has been ample research to suggest that dark chocolate has immense health benefits. It’s supposed to keep heart disease away, lowers blood pressure, lowers cholesterol and do we really need to...
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