Category Archives: Coronary Heart Diseases

Swapping small amounts of meat for vegetarian substitutes may have a dramatic effect on our life expectancy, a new study suggests. Researchers have discovered that replacing just 100 calories worth of meat a day with plant protein has been linked to a 50 per cent decreased risk of death. Continue reading →

Tired of being hammered over the head with a head of lettuce about eating more plants? Fair enough. But eating more plants - whether you want to call yourself plant-based or not - has some pretty powerful perks when it comes to your health, way beyond a smaller jeans size (though research has shown losing weight is one of the top benefits of a plant-based diet) Continue reading →

HIGHLIGHTS Many people take pride in eating non-vegetarian food claiming that it has more protein as well as nutrition. However, the two most important organs in human body are heart and brain. And for these two organs, vegetarian food is best. Continue reading →

For some time now, scientists have known that the virus spreads through respiratory droplets discharged by an infected person when they cough or sneeze.(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo) The novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has spread to at least 100 countries around the world. Continue reading →

March 11, 2020 10:29 ET | Source: Fortune Business Insights Pune, March 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global drug delivery devices market size is forecasted to reach USD 1,792.60 billion by 2026, attributable to the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry and the advent of drug delivery systems worldwide. The rising trend of digitalization in the pharmaceutical industry has propelled the demand for drug delivery systems for accurate, convenient, and systematic drug concentration for patients Continue reading →

CORONARY artery disease is currently the number one cause of death in all populations and across all regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa. Continue reading →

The structural heart devices market has gained weightage in the recent years due to the uncompromising rise in mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis, and other related heart diseases. The demand has surged remarkably on the back of innovative repair gadgets such as occluders and annuloplasty rings and technologically sophisticated methods such as transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Since structural heart diseases are a non-coronary heart problem, they do not upset the blood vessels in the heart Continue reading →

VANCOUVER, March 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Neovasc Inc.("Neovasc" or the "Company") (NASDAQ,TSX: NVCN), a leader in the development of minimally invasive transcatheter mitral valve replacement technologies and minimally invasive devices for the treatment of refractory angina, announced today the Neovasc Reducer (the "Reducer") was featured in the peer reviewed publicationEuroIntervention, the official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and highlighted inPCR Online. In the study published inEuroIntervention, Coronary sinus Reducer implantation results in improved oxygen kinetics at cardiopulmonary exercise test in patients with refractory angina, in patients with obstructivecoronaryartery disease suffering from chronic refractory angina, treatment with coronary sinus Reducer implantation was associated with objective improvement in exercise capacity and oxygen kinetics tested by cardiopulmonary exercise testing as well as improvement in angina symptoms and quality of life. Patients with chronic refractory angina were treated with Reducer implantation at 2 medical centers: the Antwerp Cardiovascular Center in Belgium and the Tel Aviv Medical Center in Israel Continue reading →

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the Southern US population ranks amongst the least healthy in the country. Continue reading →

Credit: National Cancer Institute on Unsplash. Proteomics, the study of the proteome, has been anticipated to majorly advance research areas such as personalized medicine and drug discovery Continue reading →