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Posted September 2, 2013:

• A Fly's Hearing: Fruit Fly Is Ideal Model to Study Hearing Loss in People


• Paradigms for Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After PCI Challenged by PARIS Trial


• Global Analysis Shows Cardiac Stents Beneficial in Women


• Health of Older Women in Developed Countries Continues to Improve: Gap With Developing Countries Grows


• Treatment With the Anti-Diabetic Drug Alogliptin Does Not Increase CV Risk in Patients With ACS


• ASSURE Study of Experimental Agent to Raise HDL Yields 'Disappointing and Surprising' Results


• TAVI Feasible in Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Study Suggests


• Common Blood Pressure Drug Reduces Aortic Enlargement in Marfan Syndrome


• TAVI Is Safe Alternative to Redo Cardiac Surgery, Study Suggests


• Pacemaker for Slow Heart Rhythm Restores Life Expectancy, Study Suggests


• Women Less Likely to Die After TAVI Than Men


• Metabolically Healthy Women Have Same CVD Risk Regardless of BMI


• Average Height of European Males Has Grown by 11 Centimeters in Just Over a Century


• Stomach Bacteria Switch Off Human Immune Defenses to Cause Disease


• Robotic IV Insertion Device Means Less Pain for Kids


• New Test to Predict Women at Risk of Pregnancy Complications?


• Next Generation Cures Born from the Sea?


• HIV: Predicting Treatment Response More Accurately


• Surprising Result: Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Problems Found to Be Inverse to Disease and Deaths


• Drug Reduces Hospitalizations and Cost of Treating Young Children With Sickle Cell Anemia

Posted September 1, 2013:

• Scientists Show How Antibiotics Enable Pathogenic Gut Infections


• Family History Doubles Aortic Stenosis Risk


• Hokusai-VTE Study Suggests Certain Sub-Groups of Venous Thromboembolism Patients May Need Review


• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Before Ablation for Atrial Fibrosis Helps Predict Success of Treatment


• Heart Attack Patients: Preventive PCI Results in Better Outcomes Than Culprit Artery PCI Alone in ST Elevation MI


• Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival Just 7 Percent


• Quitting Smoking Drops Heart Attack Risk to Levels of Never Smokers


• A Shorter Interruption of Anti-Thrombotics Does Not Influence Peri-Operative Complications, Studu Suggests


• Droplet Digital PCR Enables Reproducible Quantification of microRNA Biomarkers


• Listening to Favorite Music Improves Endothelial Function in CAD


• Physical Activity Decreases Sudden Cardiac Death Risk in Unfit Men


• Pre-Treatment With Prasugrel -- More Risk, No Benefit: ACCOAST


• Cold Weather Produces More Heart Attacks, Researchers Find


• Cardiovascular Risk Factors Highest in Winter and Lowest in Summer


• TASTE Trial Challenge Current Practice of Blood Clot Aspiration After Heart Attack


• Big Belly Increases Death Risk in Heart Attack Survivors


• Drug-Resistant TB's Surprising Family Tree


• Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Our African Follower for Over 70,000 Years


• Scientists Discover Novel Functions of Platelets


• Harmonizing a Broken Heart: Stem Cells Keep Cardiac Beat in Synchrony


• Mechanical Chest Compressions for Cardiac Arrest Just as Good as Manual, Study Suggests


• Administering Natural Substance Spermidin Stopped Dementia in Fruit Flies


• Anticoagulant Does Not Reduce Rate of Ischemic Events Among Certain Patients Undergoing PCI


• Move It and Lose It: Every 'Brisk' Minute Counts


• DNA 'Cages' May Aid Drug Delivery


• Multiple Mutations Often Needed to Make TB Bacteria Drug Resistant