Baltimore, MD - Dr Eduardo Marbán has been appointed director of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, heartwire has learned. Dr Myron Weisfeltd, director of medicine at JHU, ...
When a piece of muscle in a person’s heart dies from lack of blood flow, it scars over and is lost. But a team of researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles has proven that those ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — No batteries required: Scientists are creating a biological pacemaker by injecting a gene into the hearts of sick pigs that changed ordinary cardiac cells into a special kind that ...
LOS ANGELES — When a piece of muscle in a person’s heart dies from lack of blood flow, it scars over and is lost. But a team of researchers from the Cedars Sinai Heart Institute in LA has proven that ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Implantable electronic pacemakers are some of the most common heart procedures done every year. But what if doctors could turn your own cells into pacemakers? Around 300,000 ...
WASHINGTON – No batteries required: Scientists are creating a biological pacemaker by injecting a gene into the hearts of sick pigs that changed ordinary cardiac cells into a special kind that induces ...
There is remarkable new evidence that stem cells can repair a damaged heart and the early goings suggest it is a powerful effect. The findings were presented at a meeting of the American Heart ...
LOS ANGELES (April 20, 2009) – Eduardo Marbán, M.D., Ph.D., the Director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, received today the American Heart Association's Award of Meritorious Achievement at the ...
Results from a new clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle. Patients who underwent the ...