Mini Heart Attacks Lessen Damage From Major Ones
on Dec 5, 2008Mini Heart Attacks Lessen Damage From Major Ones ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008) — Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage cause...

Music and the Heart
on Dec 3, 2008Joyful Music in Tune With Heart Health.By Amanda Gardner.HealthDay Reporter .TUESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Throw on a little Bach, Beatles or Beyonce, and then sit back and relax in the knowledge that your blood vessels are expanding wide open...

Flu Shots Can Help Prevent Cardiac Death
on Dec 1, 2008The three-dimensional structure of influenza virus from electron tomography. The viruses are about 120 nanometers -- about one ten thousandth of a millimeter -- in diameter..Patients with heart disease ought to get flu shots, say the American Heart A...

Heart Disease Reversed in Mice
on Dec 1, 2008 in micrna mice heart disease miragen November 30, 2008Heart disease 'reversed in mice'.Tiny fragments of genetic material can play a role in heart disease..Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects. .The study provides hard

Purkinje Fibers
on Nov 29, 2008Heart muscle with purkinje fibers on the surface of heart muscle fibers. Purkinje fibers are modified cardiac muscle fibers that originate from the atrioventricular node and spread into the two ventricles. They transmit the electrical impulse from th...

Pericarditis
on Nov 28, 2008Pericarditis is a swelling and irritation of the pericardium, the thin sac-like membrane that surrounds your heart. Pericarditis often causes chest pain and sometimes other symptoms. Pericarditis may be acute or chronic. The sharp chest pain associat...

Importance of Uninterrupted Chest Compressions in Sudden Cardiac Arrest
on Nov 28, 2008(Note: The disco tune "Stayin' Alive) is about 100 beats per minute)Gasping Helps Cardiac Arrest Victims Survive, New Research Shows .ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2008) — People who witness an individual collapse suddenly and unexpectedly should per