Tag:Heart

Health

Women’s Health Alert: Fighting Heart Disease in your 40’s

Steady Increase in Cardiovascular Deaths Affects Younger Women Dr. Holly Andersen of the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute Offers Women Tips on Recognizing a Heart...

Joseph Acosta - January 14, 2012

Health

FDA Approves Cardiac Assist Device for Children with Heart Failure

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a medical device that supports the weakened heart of children with heart failure to help keep them...

Joseph Acosta - December 16, 2011

Health

New York Presbyterian Surgeons Perform First Artificial Heart Implant

Surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center performed the first Total Artificial Heart implant in New York City to replace a patient's...

Joseph Acosta - December 14, 2011

Health

Device that Removes Plaque may Prevent Heart Attacks

Drilling through concrete to create an opening may sound more like construction than medicine. However, the approach is similar to what researchers at Orlando Regional...

Joseph Acosta - November 22, 2011

Environment

Heavy Work may Increase Heart Disease Risks for Unfit Men

Study Finds Low Social Class Can't Explain Link between Heart Disease and Physical Labor High physical work demands are linked to an increased risk of death...

Joseph Acosta - November 16, 2011

Health

Small Blood Vessels Cause Heart Diseases in Women

Heart disease affects men and women in different ways. In women, symptoms of burgeoning heart disease are often more insidious, but when a heart...

Alan Gray - October 14, 2011

Health

Multi-Million Award for Study of Congenital Heart Defects

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and collaborators at...

Alan Gray - October 11, 2011