Science news articles about 'heart treatment'

... disorder by burning heart tissue with a catheter works dramatically better than drug treatments, according to a landmark ... is a relatively new treatment. In the ablation procedure, an electrophysiologist destroys areas of heart tissue that are responsible ...

... from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related ...

Three treatment strategies that doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes have proven to be ineffective or even harmful.

... from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related ...

... his scientific duty and questioning the effectiveness of its heart treatments. Mr Justice Eady denied ... for claiming that there was no evidence that chiropractic "alternative" treatments for sick children worked.How encouraging, then ...

... make it possible for a person having a bypass to also receive a heart treatment using their body's own stem cells. "We can also multiply these cells in the lab to make millions more stem ...

... because it allows a doctor to carry out a common heart treatment procedure remotely using a robotic arm. These procedures involve inserting thin wires, called ...

TORONTO, July 13 (UPI) -- Doctors at a Toronto hospital are the first in North America to use a breakthrough technology to treat patients with irregular heartbeats, observers say. Toronto - Canada - ...

People with Type D personalities are less likely to benefit from heart treatments.

... . "Our finding was unexpected, but extremely important because this is the only heart treatment that is clearly better in women than men ... to CRT-D therapy, a treatment that strengthens the overall mechanical pumping action of the heart and coordinates ...

... phosphokkinase – chemicals called enzymes that are released by heart muscle cells when they are damaged – have often been dismissed ... are particularly useful in designing clinical trials of new heart treatments, and may ultimately prove useful in evaluating the quality ...

... into the body and controlled by a doctor on the outside. "During a heart treatment, the doctor controlling the catheter has no ... tell if the catheter has touched the heart wall and successfully completed the therapeutic treatment," Liu explains ...

Medtronic Inc. said Wednesday that Health Canada approved its Arctic Front cardiac cryoablation catheter system, which treats abnormal heart rhythms using extreme cold.