Can a decade of dark chocolate protect your heart?
Reuters via Yahoo! India News Thu, 31 May 2012 17:39 PM PDT
LONDON (Reuters) - A scientific study likely to stir the souls of chocoholics has suggested that eating dark chocolate every day for 10 years could reduce the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes in some high-risk patients. A team of researchers from Australia used a mathematical model to predict the long-term health impact of daily dark chocolate consumption in 2,013 people with a condition ... |
SynCardia Wins 2012 Medical Design Excellence Award
PR Newswire Thu, 31 May 2012 17:39 PM PDT
TUCSON, Ariz., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), the privately-held manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that the company's Freedom® portable driver,... |
Stallings leads Memorial; McIlroy recovers
WRAL Sports Fan Thu, 31 May 2012 17:29 PM PDT
Erik Compton considers the Memorial a special week no matter how he plays, knowing his second heart transplant came from a donor in Ohio. |
AGH Uses Robotics In Bypass Surgery
CBS Pittsburgh Thu, 31 May 2012 17:25 PM PDT
Robotic surgery has been used to remove kidneys, do hysterectomies and prostate surgery. Doctors at Allegheny General Hospital have added another organ â€" the heart. |
Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center adding to neonatal facility
Lancaster Online Thu, 31 May 2012 17:06 PM PDT
A local hospital is expanding its unit for the smallest of its patients. Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, in Warwick Township, recently began work to enlarge and add a new level of care to its neonatal intensive care unit. The $1 million expansion will add five additional beds and 1,750 s... |
Nation + World
The Salt Lake Tribune Thu, 31 May 2012 16:56 PM PDT
In this image taken May 23, 2012, Dr. Manesh Patel, an interventional cardiologist at Duke Heart Center, poses for a photo in the lab at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. Patel is participating in a research study of a way to treat high blood pressure by threading a catheter to the kidney and zapping nearby nerves that fuel blood pressure. |
Spectrum Health hires new pediatric heart surgeon
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids Thu, 31 May 2012 16:45 PM PDT
Helen De Vos Children's Hospital is now able to help adults living with ... The ban will take effect next year. It would not allow restaurants, ... |
Suffering chest pains? Call for an ambulance
Straits Times Thu, 31 May 2012 16:37 PM PDT
Call for an ambulance if you suspect you are having a heart attack. That is the message from doctors who found that only one in three patients in a study relied on an ambulance to get to the hospital. Related Stories GP charged with selling cough syrup 'wholesale' Traffic Police to ramp up enforcement, review drink-driving laws More drivers caught running red lights Changes in Appeal Court ... |
Dark chocolate good for the heart
Sky News Australia Thu, 31 May 2012 16:36 PM PDT
Eating dark chocolate daily could help prevent heart problems in high risk people, say researchers. |
Dark chocolate could prevent heart problem
AAP via Yahoo!7 News Thu, 31 May 2012 16:34 PM PDT
Promoting the health benefits of eating dark chocolate could be a cost-effective way to reduce heart disease in high-risk people, a study says. |
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