Heart Valve Disorders
There are various kinds of heart valve disorders. Five major ones are mitral valve insufficiency, mitral valve prolapse, mitral valve stenosis, tricuspid valve insufficiency, and...
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Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb _ offering a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair...
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Two researchers who opened up the field of heart-valve replacement and a scientist who discovered a type of cell that plays a key role in the immune system have won prestigious medical prizes.The $...
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Medicine: Cardiac patients in Britain may soon be getting replacement heart valves grown from their own adult stem cells. You may not have heard about this miracle on the evening news.Few people re...
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U.S. marshals and FDA investigators on Tuesday began seizing heart valves and other implantable medical devices made from cow and pig tissue by a New Jersey company because of concerns about their ...
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U.S. marshals and FDA investigators on Tuesday began seizing heart valves and other implantable medical devices made from cow and pig tissue by a New Jersey company because of concerns about their ...
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Bioethics: Heart disease is a silent killer, but equally silent are reporters, politicians and activists who ignore a politically incorrect cure. We may not be far away from transplanted hearts gro...
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CryoLife Inc.Kennesaw, Ga.cryolife.comIt took a long time, but CryoLife has finally gotten back into the good graces of Wall Street.The medical device maker's stock hit a five-year high of 15.20 in...
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The risk of heart valve damage with two drugs for Parkinson's disease may be far greater than was known, new research suggests. The drugs are not the main treatment for Parkinson's, but one is also...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking only "a little bit" of medication to ease constant, throbbing pain in his leg, he said in a television interview aired Sunday.The actor-turned-governor told ABC...
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(Reuters) - New genetic evidence supports the
theory that Christopher Columbus and his crew brought syphilis
to Europe on the way back from their 1492 exploration of the
Americas. Following are ...
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