Displaying items by tag: Cardiovascular
Saturday, 23 January 2010 21:50
Clear your clogged arteries with nanoburrs
U.S. lead researchers from MIT and Harvard University have developed nanoparticles called nanoburrs that attach to damaged arteries and release medicine to open clogged arteries and repair injured ones. The new nanoparticles could vastly improve the repair and treatment of such cardiovascular problems in humans.
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Biology
Saturday, 16 January 2010 20:07
Study confirms: TV could be the death of us all
According to an Australian research study, sitting in front of the boob tube for long periods of time is likely to shorten one's life due to cardiovascular (heart) disease. Actually, any sedentary inactivity for long periods of time is bad.
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Health
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 18:04
Pro football player health study: Overall good, high blood pressure
According to a U.S. study published in the medical journal JAMA, National Football League players are overall in good cardiovascular health, but they do have higher blood pressure when compared to other men of smaller size.
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Health
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:25
Multivitamins provide little help for postmenopausal women
It is commonly thought in the United States and around the world that multivitamins help to improve health and minimize the risk of such diseases as cancer and cardiovascular disease. A U.S. study asked if this belief is medically true in postmenopausal women.
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:05
Bad bosses blamed for employee bad hearts
A Swedish study has found that male employees having to contend with overbearing, incompetent bosses are at increased risk from cardiovascular-related problems like heart attacks, and their risk increases as the badness of their bosses increase.
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 02:47
Menstrual blood has properties to repair heart damage
Japanese scientists conducted research showing that menstrual blood cells cultured in the laboratory and placed in lab rats, which were strickened with heart attacks, improved their cardiovascular conditions. They contend that heart damage in humans can be repaired similarly.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 23:34
Falling women lifespans in Deep South, Appalachia, lower Midwest
A Harvard, UC, and UW study has found female life spans in 180 impoverished and rural U.S. counties fell from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, with causes including increased smoking, being overweight and obese, and having high blood pressure.
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Monday, 24 March 2008 18:33
Help! I'm addicted to the Internet - are you?
Internet addiction is a real disorder, with its incidence rising across
the world, with the most interesting research coming from South Korea,
although US ‘case descriptions are remarkably similar’ according to a
new report.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 21:42
People stressed after 9/11 had more heart problems
According to a January 2008 U.S. study, people who were extremely stressed out in the days and weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist disasters in New York City and Washington D.C., were more likely to have cardiovascular (heart and related) problems.
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