Heart study gets $190,000 grant
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A study into how nerve signals change during a heart attack has been given a $190,000 boost by the National Heart Foundation. It is one of five Christchurch research projects to win grants from the foundation&#39;s
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Researchers seeking new treatments for heart disease managed to grow a rat heart in the lab and start it beating.
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Experts say the new experimental fabric device that helps weak hearts pump more efficiently could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers.
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New research suggests that more people survive major heart attacks with fewer problems if doctors use a mini-vacuum to clear out an artery blockage instead of pushing it aside to restore blood flow.
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A $156 million grant for DNA sequencing at the Washington University School of Medicine is part of an effort to unlock the mystery of the origins of cancer within the body, university officials said Monday.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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A simple blood test could help dramatically cut the number of people dying from heart disease and strokes. The 20-minute test would allow doctors to treat
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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.
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Research to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with $280 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for work to develop more effective vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs.
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A heart-drug trial that was "outsourced" to India and China -- an approach many industries are taking to save money -- demonstrates the potential for doing life-saving medical research on a budget, scientists said on Monday.
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ATLANTA -- A new device that was studied in Atlanta has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to help stroke victims.
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A new $8.5 million Cardiovascular Research Grid is being developed by Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University and the University of California, San Diego as part of an effort to better share health data.
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The federal government should quadruple annual funding for coal research to $190 million to make better use of the nation's resources and minimize the impact on the environment, the National Research Council says.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for  as many as 4,000 people.
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that "normal" blood pressure may not be low enough.
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Researchers studying colorectal cancer at the University of South Carolina have been awarded a $10.7 million grant, school officials said Wednesday.
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The first artificial heart won U.S. approval Monday for use as a temporary measure to keep alive patients on the verge of death while they wait for live organs to become available for transplants.