The other day, the I was reading an ordinary JAMA article on heart failure risk when something unusual caught my eye. In the middle of a list of familiar risk factors — weight, smoking, exercise, alcohol intake, consumption of fruits and vegetables — was one I hadn’t seen before: “consumption of breakfast cereals.”
The researchers combined [...]

Researchers at the North Carolina State University has developed a machine that can keep a heart beating outside the body. The potential medical benefit is huge:
“Researchers can obtain pig hearts from a pork processing facility and use the system to test their prototypes or practice new surgical procedures,” says Andrew Richards, a Ph. D. student [...]

By using iron in blood as a contrast MRI agent, researchers at Imperial College London imaged bleeding inside hearts in post-MI patients. The use of the new technique opens doors to studying how bleeding affects the heart after a heart attack, and what the clinical strategies in such circumstances might be.
From Imperial College London:
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Pulmonary Morning Report
Every Monday
8:00am – 8:30am
CCU Classroom
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