The deadly condition known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which afflicts up to 150,000 Americans each year, may be reversible by using an inhalable gene therapy The deadly conditi... Read more
RESEARCHERS AT THE HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE have discovered a substance in the blood of young mice that reverses a major effect of aging in the hearts of old mice. The substance, called G... Read more
The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that hea... Read more
“We found 50 percent of patients receiving the two highest doses still had positive effects one year after treatment” In the first human study of its kind, researchers activated heart... Read more
“It is like turning back the clock so these cells can thrive again.” Damaged and aged heart tissue of older heart failure patients was rejuvenated by stem cells modified by scientists... Read more
It could take at least five to ten years before clinical trials could start For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogram... Read more
A German team has developed a completely new non-invasive method to identify heart failure. It consists of an “electronic nose” which could make the “smelling” of hea... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Technology is delivering a array of health monitoring systems that can record a person’s blood pressure or perform an ECG on the go. Now researchers have turned their att... Read more