The experience of daily positive affect — a mild, happy feeling — and self-affirmation helps some patients with chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and asthma, make better decisions about their health…
In the summer of 2008, a lightning strike started a wildfire in eastern North Carolina that burned for weeks, blanketing nearby communities in smoke. An EPA study shows for the first time that smoke from this wildfire, which was fueled by peat (decayed vegetable matter found in swampy areas) can lead to an increase in emergency room visits for both respiratory and cardiovascular effects…
Stress management programs like Transcendental Meditation should be implemented to significantly reduce depression, heart attacks, strokes and deaths in coronary heart disease patients, according to a new editorial written by a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute physician, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, and published in Archives of Internal Medicine. C…
Today GE Healthcare and Rapidscan Pharma Solutions EU Ltd report the launch of Rapiscan® (regadenoson) in the United Kingdom, the first country in Europe to have access…
A blood protein known as surfactant protein-D (SP-D), which is mainly synthesised in the lungs, has been described as “a good predictor” of cardiovascular disease following a large study in North America…
Despite concerns that surgeon fatigue is leading to dangerous complications for patients and data showing worse outcomes for many patients who undergo surgery at night, new Johns Hopkins research suggests that in the case of heart and lung transplants time of day has no affect on patient survival. “We aren’t suggesting that fatigue is good,” says Ashish S…
A commercially available particle trap can filter microscopic pollutants in diesel-engine exhaust and prevent about 98 percent of them from reaching the air, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Inhaling exhaust particles increases the risk of dying from heart and lung diseases…
Scientists are untangling how the tiniest pollution particles - which we take in with every breath we breathe - affect our health, making people more vulnerable to cardiovascular and respiratory problems. While scientists know that air pollution can aggravate heart problems, showing exactly how it does so has been challenging…
A significant number of patients on Warfarin also take herbal and/or dietary supplements which can interact in a negative way with the blood thinning medication; unfortunately, the majority of patients who do this are unaware, scientists from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City explained at the American Health Association’s Annual Scientific Session 2010, Chicago…
