Topic: London (England)

Hospital wins review of heart unit closure plan

A London hospital has won its High Court battle over health authorities' plans to close down its children's heart surgery unit.Lawyers for the Royal Brompton in Chelsea, west London, argued that a consultation exercise launched by the Joint Committee of the Primary ...

Peter Sellers ? English Comic Actor

Peter Sellers was one of England's greatest icons and is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest comic actors of the 20th Century. I thought it would be interesting to write the story of this famous icon from his birth in Southsea ...
The spatial localization in cardiomyocytes of these ARs, which are coupled to heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins), and the functional implications of their localization have been unclear. We combined nanoscale live-cell scanning ion conductance and fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy techniques ...

Risk of blood clots after surgery higher than thought

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of blood clots following surgery is probably higher - for one relatively common surgery, more than one clot per 50 surgeries -- than previously thought, data from the UK's Million Women Study suggest.Blood clots can ...

John Fothergill

Dec. 26, 1780, London), physician who was the first to record coronary arteriosclerosis (hardening of the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle) in association with a case of angina pectoris.. Fothergill, a Quaker, studied medicine at the University ...
British teen who won right to refuse heart transplant changes mind, has operation, media sayBritish media outlets say a teenager who won the legal right to refuse a lifesaving heart transplant has changed her mind and had the operation.Fourteen-year-old Hannah Jones made ...
Cisplatin may be more thrombogenic than oxaliplatin in patients with advanced gastroesophageal cancer, and thromboembolism may shorten patients' survival, according to research published online April 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.. Naureen Starling, of the Royal Marsden Hospital National Health Service ...

Polypill 'halves heart attack rate'

containing a cocktail of potentially life-saving drugs could halve rates of heart attacks and strokes in healthy middle aged and older people, a major trial has found.. The research in India involved more than 2,000 people aged 45 to 80 and was ...
Screening for novel risk factors such as ankle-brachial index (ABI) -- which identifies peripheral arterial disease -- could help prevent the 25 percent of all heart attacks or sudden cardiac deaths that occur in patients thought to be at low risk. In ...
A gastrointestinal peptide hormone originally derived from the saliva of a venomous lizard is effective in reducing infarct size and preventing cardiac function deterioration after a heart attack in pigs, according to the results of an animal study published in the Feb. ...
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