Supplement may act on other aspects of cardiac function to exert its heart-healthy effects

The cells that line the pipes leading to the heart pull more tightly together in areas of fast-flowing blood. The discovery could help to reduce vascular leakage and better treat heart disease.

Karl Pillemer is professor of human development at Cornell University and author of the recently published “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.” Based on surveys of over 1,200 of America’s elders, Pillemer uncovered their advice to the younger generation for living a happy, healthy and successful life. Their graduation advice includes: make the most of a bad job, choose excitement over money, use graduation gifts to travel, and take risks to avoid regret.

After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it.

If a patient with a pacemaker needs an MRI for the brain or orthopedic injury, doctors at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston can now reprogram the device so they can now receive one.

Findings could help explain why women are more likely than men to have coronary symptoms after emotional upsets

An Extensive UCSF Study Questions Previous Study’s Analytic Methods

Engineers at the University of Arkansas have developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers critical patient information, regardless of the patient’s location, and communicates that information in real time to a physician, hospital or the patient herself. The system includes a series of nanostructured, textile sensors integrated into a conventional sports bra for women and vest for men.

Previously, scientists thought the blood protein Junctional Adhesion Molecule A (JAM-A) stimulated platelets to form clots. Now UD researchers have shown that JAM-A actually inhibits the formation of clots--the direct cause of heart attacks and strokes.

A new study by researchers in the Center for Biobehavioral Health and the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital examined pediatric injuries associated with baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups. Researchers found that from 1991 to 2010, an estimated 45,398 children younger than three years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments for injuries related to the use of these products. This equates to an average of 2,270 injuries per year, or one child treated in a hospital emergency department every four hours for these injuries.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in individuals with chronic kidney disease.

Renal denervation may protect the kidneys and reduce heart risks

Supplement may act on other aspects of cardiac function to exert its heart-healthy effects

Robot-assisted surgery is now both more common and far more successful than radical “open” surgery to treat prostate cancer in the United States, according to a new Henry Ford Hospital study published in the current issue of the medical journal European Urology.

Reducing a patient’s treatment time and simplifying the treatment can increase patient acceptance and reduce the risk of complications. For dental implants, this means moving away from the traditional two-stage surgical approach toward a one-stage procedure. The success of this concept when combined with another complication—that of patients receiving drug therapy for osteoporosis—was studied to determine the best method of treatment in