School chief recovering from minor heart attack
Galveston County Daily News Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:18 PM PDT
Leland Williams, the Dickinson school district superintendent, is expected back in the office this week after he had a “mild†heart attack Tuesday. |
Genetic hope for a fatal skin disease
The Philadelphia Inquirer Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:17 PM PDT
Geneticist Richard Lifton had been more focused on heart than skin disease, but when a former postdoc dermatologist returned to describe a baffling case, the head of Yale's genetics department was intrigued. |
Longtime Solvang postal clerk dies
The Santa Ynez Valley News Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:14 PM PDT
Diane Tate, a familiar face at the Solvang Post Office for 19 years, died Aug. 20 of a heart attack after cancer surgery at UCLA Medical Center. The 56-year-old Lompoc resident left work early July 1 because she was ill, was taken to the emergency room that night and diagnosed with kidney cancer. |
VA's liabilities grow as agency expands list of diseases linked to Agent Orange
News-Medical-Net Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:03 PM PDT
Politico looks at a new fight brewing over Agent Orange and how it affects programs for Vietnam Veterans. "It's a world turned upside-down from decades ago when returning soldiers had to fight to get attention for deadly lymphomas linked to the herbicide. Now the frailties of men in their 60s â€" prostate cancer, diabetes, heart disease â€" lead the list of qualified Agent Orange disabilities, and ... |
Social isolation worsens cardiac arrest effects on heart regulation
Science Daily Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:29 PM PDT
A new study in mice shows how social support can help minimize some of the worst physical damages to the brain caused by a heart attack. From cell death to depressive symptoms to regulation of the heart, mice that lived with a partner after a heart attack suffered less damage than did similar mice that were housed alone. |
Structural Defects Precede Heart Failure
redOrbit Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:15 PM PDT
The disruption of a structural component in heart muscle cells, which is associated with heart failure, appears to occur even before heart function starts to decline, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.The structure is a highly organized network of grooves in heart muscle membrane called T-tubules. This network is ... |
Going Live To The Beating Heart
redOrbit Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:09 PM PDT
Max Planck scientists succeed in filming organs and joints in real time using magnetic resonance imaging "Please hold absolutely still": This instruction is crucial for patients being examined by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is the only way to obtain clear images for diagnosis. Up to now, it was therefore almost impossible to image moving organs using MRI. Max Planck ... |
Rockies president Keli McGregor died of rare virus, family says
The Fort Collins Coloradoan Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54 PM PDT
DENVER (AP) â€" The family of Colorado Rockies president Keli McGregor said he didn't die of a heart attack or other preventable cardiac condition but from a rare virus that attacked his healthy heart. |
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