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Does moderate drinking protect your heart? A genetic study offers a new answer.

Lifestyle Apr 2, 2022

Does moderate drinking protect your heart? A genetic study offers a new answer.

by Gina Kolata

The risk of heart disease is small if people have an average of seven drinks a week when compared with none. But it increases quickly as the level of alcohol consumption rises.

U.S. man with transplanted genetically modified pig heart dies

World / Science & Health Mar 10, 2022

U.S. man with transplanted genetically modified pig heart dies

The patient, David Bennett, "wasn't able to overcome what turned out to be the devastating debilitation" caused by the heart failure he experienced before the transplant.

U.S. man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant

World / Science & Health Jan 11, 2022

U.S. man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant

by Julie Steenhuysen

The surgery is among the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-to-human heart transplant, a field made possible by new gene editing tools.

Tokyo hospital succeeds in fetal surgery for serious heart disease

National / Science & Health Dec 19, 2021

Tokyo hospital succeeds in fetal surgery for serious heart disease

The baby, who underwent the surgery in July this year when the mother was 25 weeks pregnant, was born later in the year and is making good progress.

Pig kidney functions in human patient in 'potential miracle'

World / Science & Health Oct 21, 2021

Pig kidney functions in human patient in 'potential miracle'

A U.S. medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person as part of a two-day experiment.

Long work hours are a killer, WHO study shows

Business May 17, 2021

Long work hours are a killer, WHO study shows

by Emma Farge

The study showed that people living in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region — a WHO-defined region which includes China, Japan and Australia — were the most affected.

Stents are no better than drugs for many heart patients, major study finds

World / Science & Health Nov 17, 2019

Stents are no better than drugs for many heart patients, major study finds

Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making lifestyle changes, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday. If adopted into practice, the findings could save ...

World / Science & Health May 28, 2019

Scientists zoom in on bug behind strep throat and scarlet fever

Scientists studying a bacterium that causes scarlet fever, severe sore throat and a form of heart disease say they are closer to developing a vaccine that could one day prevent hundred of thousands of infections a year. In a study in the journal Nature Genetics, ...

World / Science & Health Jan 11, 2019

Study details how high-fiber diets make for healthier lives and lower risk of diseases

People who eat lots of high-fiber and whole grain foods have lower risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other chronic diseases than people whose diets are low in fiber, a study commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) says. For every 8-gram increase in ...

80% of cancer or heart patients in Japan worked from hospital: survey

National / Science & Health Dec 16, 2018

80% of cancer or heart patients in Japan worked from hospital: survey

Health ministry data shows a majority of cancer and heart patients surveyed by the government worked in some form while they were undergoing treatment in a hospital.

The race is on to lead medical AI revolution

World / Science & Health | FOCUS Sep 2, 2018

The race is on to lead medical AI revolution

by Caroline Copley

Armed with a computer screen and mouse instead of a scalpel in an operating theater, cardiologist Benjamin Meder carefully places the electrodes of a pacemaker in a beating digital heart. Using this "digital twin," which mimics the electrical and physical properties of the cells in ...

Conductor Ozawa makes comeback after surgery for heart valve disease

Entertainment News Jul 29, 2018

Conductor Ozawa makes comeback after surgery for heart valve disease

World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa made a comeback Saturday after undergoing surgery for heart valve disease, pleasing his fans, who have not seen him conducting in about nine months. The 82-year-old returned to conducting at a concert in Nagano Prefecture by students of the Ozawa International ...

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