Congenital heart disease
People with Type 2 diabetes are advised to limit carbohydrates because of worries that too many carbs could overtax the body’s dwindling insulin production and lessen its ability to process glucose.
Heart Has Enough Oxygen To Survive Hypothermia, CPR Crucial
Rewarming the victims of severe hypothermia usually causes heart failure of varying severity, but little is known about why. In a step toward developing proper rewarming techniques, Norwegian researchers ruled out insufficient oxygen to the heart as the critical variable in whether the heart survives severe hypothermia. The researchers stress the importance of starting CPR with hypothermia
Reversing And Accelerating The Speed Of Light
Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives making light travel backwards at negative speeds that appear faster than the speed of light.
Lightening the load using vegetarian diets
VEGETARIANS: Obesity is a worldwide problem and affects developed countries more than developing countries. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that a total of 1.2 billion people are overweight or obese and these numbers are rapidly increasing.
Mayo Clinic Study Suggests Emergence Of New Most Common Form Of Heart Failure
Data from a 15-year period show that the prevalence of a particular type of heart failure — heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, also known as diastolic heart failure — is increasing. This type of heart failure now accounts for more than half of heart failure cases, according to Mayo Clinic research published in the July 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. An editorial
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