Word: cardiac
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...become “the first established biomarker of the disease” to gauge Parkinson’s in the way that High-density lipoprotein cholesterol—better known as the “good” cholesterol—is used as a measure of cardiac health, Weisskopf said...
...need multiple skill sets. For cardiac stem cell research, you need stem cell biologists, developmental biologists, cardiologists, and engineers,” Reeve says. “You need multiple discipline sets in order to ultimately be able to cure certain diseases...
...world, concedes Patel, people at risk of heart disease would change their lifestyles. In reality, most don't. So "in the next several decades, the polypill looks like the answer." Depending on the trial results, doctors may be prescribing it within three years. By then, staving off a deadly cardiac event could be a whole lot simpler...
...Journal of Athletic Training that every school in the country, public and private, have an AED on site. "We all wear life vests in the water, just in case something crazy does happen," says Chuck Kimmel, the President of the National Athletic Trainers' Association. "The AED is the cardiac life vest...
...works. More than 70% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims are saved by defibrillators. Laura Friend, the cofounder of Parent Heart Watch, an advocacy group that helps to raise awareness and protect children from sudden cardiac death, knows that percentage all too well. Three years ago, she lost her 12-year-old daughter Sarah at a water park in Texas from the same condition as Nwankwo's. An AED might have saved Sarah's life. "It is an epidemic," Friend says. "When are we going to realize we are losing too many kids...