Category Archives: Heart Disease
Type D Personality: Health and Heart Risks
Are you a heart patient with a “Type D” personality? Then you have a greater risk of developing future cardiovascular problems such as peripheral artery disease, angioplasty or bypass procedure, heart failure, heart transplantation, heart attack or death and other cardiovascular problems. This was the finding of a research, published Sept. 14 in the Journal [...]
Heart Attack: Symptoms, Cold Weather, & Stem Cell Research
A small stem cell company based in Allendale, New Jersey has received what it calls the “the first U.S. patent in the industry to fully enable practical development of stem cell therapies for treating heart damage following a heart attack.” [Related story: Stem cell for heart disease?] Amorcyte Inc. received the patent after its small [...]
Charles Okeke’s Artificial Heart and the Freedom Driver in His Backpack
CBS has a very touching report on Charles Okeke, the first heart patient in the U.S. to use a portable device called the “freedom driver” to support his artificial heart. For some reason, we were reminded of Ironman when we saw Charles in this video with his artificial heard and the “freedom driver” in his [...]
