Posts Tagged ‘Cardiac Disease’

French Scientists Develop Prototype Heart

Sunday, November 2, 2008 22:48 By Jaiyant Cavale

If you had been wondering if one could ever create a heart, an artificial heart, the French scientists have already created one. Call it the plastic heart, for it uses pig tissues and polymer and works just like the real heart does. Scientists used technology, which is usually used in satellites and airplanes.
The prototype hearts [...]

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Depression Increases The Risk Of Acquiring Pulmonary Disease

Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:42 By Jaiyant Cavale

That heart ache or the sinking feeling felt during a bout of clinical depression may have far more implications than originally thought. Recent studies have confirmed a positive correlation between untreated clinical depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It has been proven already that depression increases the sufferer’s risk to acquiring cardiac disease but it [...]

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