Hubmed Page: A Chilling Tale
This is an article about a clinical case of a man who went to an emergency room for diarrhea, and ended up having a heart attack. It goes on to analyze the odd ECG recordings he produced, describe how hypothermia was induced to minimize damage, and elucidate the origin of [...]

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A story on heartinfo.org (via Slashdot) highlights the tissue engineering work done at Columbia University in New York. While they have grown beating patches of myocytes, it may be years before the patches make their way to a clinical setting.

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I downloaded a trial of mo:Blog for my Treo. This is just a test post with the software.

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Virtual Electrode Polarization (VEP) is an effect seen when an electrical field is applied across cardiac tissue. Large regions of positive and negative polarization manifest on the tissue surfaces, and sometimes within the depths of the heart. I’d link to the Wikipedia article on the term, but there is none. Perhaps I should write one.
Here [...]

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The heart disease news blog that I linked to not long ago has mysteriously disappeared. Luckily, I still have the last few news items in my aggregator. Unluckily, they pretty much lack references now. Those that I can rediscover references for, I will post below:

High intake of vegetable protein linked with lower blood pressure - [...]

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