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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found women experiencing a heart attack suffer less chest pain symptoms, according to a study of more than one million people in the US. Generally men suffer more heart attacks but women younger than 55 are at higher risk of mortality from one. There [...]

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Cochrane Collaboration studied 33 trials consisting of more than 1,700 patients. The review comes the day after doctors reported the first case of repairing heart attack damage using heart cells. After a heart attack, the dead heart muscle is replaced with scar tissue, which is not as contractile as the original heart tissue, thus leaving [...]

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Destruction resulting from a heart attack (a.k.a. myocardial infarction) has been repaired with stem cells collected from the patient’s own heart. Scar tissue was halved in the small safety trial reported in the Lancet medical journal. The authors reported an “unprecedented” increase in new heart muscle. The British Heart Foundation said it was “early days”, [...]

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Angina pectoris pain is a clinical syndrome causing pain or pressure in the centre of the chest. Usually exercise – sometimes acute anxiety & stress – brings on angina pectoris pain. This is because angina pectoris pain can accompany myocardial ischaemia and coronary artery disease. Angina pain may be severe and felt also in arms [...]

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