Cambridge Heart hits a snag
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Cambridge Heart Inc. , a small, publicly traded company based in Bedford, has suffered a setback in its bid to persuade Medicare to mandate its tests for a registry of implantable defibrillator patients.
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As exhilarating as hockey has been lately for the Bruins, who swaggered into the Bell Centre last night riding a four-game winning streak, they learned the hard way that fortunes can change and turn this sport into heartache.
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While poets and lovers ponder how to mend a broken heart, doctors now have a tool for repairing an enlarged heart. One of the more unusual medical devices yet developed, a mesh &quot;jacket&quot; can actually reverse this dangerous condition.
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WESTWOOD -- During the aftermath of Cambridge's 1-point loss to No. 4 Xaverian yesterday, resident Falcon intimidator Peter Manns trundled across midfield, his face streaked with eye black and covered in gravel from the artificial turf, but with his head held high.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Lion Heart, who finished seventh and last as the 5-2 favorite in Saturday's $1 million Travers at Saratoga, suffered a broken bone in his right front foot and is headed for retirement.
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For the first month or so after my heart attack (at age 38, no family history, no obvious risk factors apart from being a man), I left the light on at night and cried myself to sleep. Having been startled by my own mortality -- the inevitability of it, the unfairness of it -- I was certain I was ...
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High-pressure work deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of suffering a heart attack in the following 24 hours, a study has suggested.
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CAMBRIDGE -- The 40-year-old Head of the Charles Regatta is in financial trouble, and if there is no help soon, the future of the regatta will be in question.
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Work could lead to patch for damaged tissue - MIT engineers are significantly closer to mending broken hearts. In a paper to appear the week of Dec 13 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National
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If you have a brother or sister who had a heart attack at an early age, start paying attention to your own arteries because you&#39;re at increased risk for heart trouble, a new study finds.
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The booming market for drug-coated   stents faces an uncertain future as some heart experts question   the long-term safety record of the devices.
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An implanted wireless device did not keep enough patients with weak hearts out of the hospital to prove its effectiveness.
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Access to a potentially life-saving treatment for heart patients is a postcode lottery, a study suggests.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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A lorry driver whose fatal motorway collision caused severe day-long traffic delays had a hole in the heart.
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The 36-year-old South Asian immigrant didn't seem like a typical candidate for a heart attack. He was lean, a nonsmoker and had healthy blood pressure, although his cholesterol levels hovered just above normal. But when his chest pain lasted for an hour, he headed for the emergency room.
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Swedish researchers say short but intense workplace pressure boosts by a factor of six the chances of a heart attack within the following 24 hours.