Topic: Oceania
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A stem cell therapy for treating patients experiencing moderate to severe heart failure showed real promise in preventing serious consequences or death, according to data from a small mid-stage clinical trial.The treatment from Australia's Mesoblast Ltd, known as ...
In Australia, where universal health care is available to all, heart disease is not much more prevalent among poor citizens than it is among the rich, a new study has found.. The analysis, led by Andrea Driscoll, a senior research fellow at ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Governments should impose controls on salt content in food in order to combat heart disease, rather than leaving food producers to regulate salt levels, a study by researchers in Australia has found.Eating too much salt raises blood pressure and ...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden and unexplained death of a child under one year of age. An Australia-first study being researched jointly with experts from the University of Aarthus in Denmark is looking at whether the presence of a ...
Did you know that nearly?37 percent of all female deaths in America occur from heart disease. The figures are similar in the U.K. and Australia, ?yet not a lot of women realize that it is the leading cause of death. Later I ...
Patients with heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) have a similar peak exercise pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) compared to controls but at a lower workload, and the condition is marked by depressed reserve capacity with a variety of issues related ...
Calcium supplementation is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction, according to a meta-analysis published online July 29 in BMJ.. Mark J. Bolland, Ph.D., of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and colleagues searched the medical literature for randomized, placebo-controlled ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The dirtier the air, the more likely people are to suffer sudden cardiac arrest, new research from Australia shows.Particulate matter -- tiny specks of soot, dust, and other pollutants in the air that can be breathed deep ...
New Zealand air force medevacs sick US man from Antarctic baseAn American working at a U.S. scientific base on the frozen continent of Antarctica has suffered heart problems and was being evacuated to New Zealand, the New Zealand air force said Monday.The ...
Collaborative medicine reviews for patients treated with heart failure medicines are effective in delaying the time to next hospitalization for heart failure, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in Circulation: Elizabeth E. Roughead, Ph.D., of the University of South Australia ...
