MYSTERIOUS: Health heart disease - What They Never Told You

Insurer denies heart procedure for 12-year-old with Kawasaki disease

Rowan Lowry, a 12-year-old boy, urgently needs a stent procedure to address complications stemming from Kawasaki disease. His family faces an insurance denial categorizing the procedure as medically unnecessary. Undeterred, they plan to seek treatment at Boston Children's Hospital, driven by their concern for Rowan's deteriorating health and the fear…

The Times of India · 1h ago

Charity shop raises £85,860 from donated banknotes, including one featuring young Queen Elizabeth II

An anonymous donation of nearly 160 lots of rare banknotes to a British Heart Foundation charity shop in Edinburgh has raised £85,860 at auction. The collection included a banknote featuring a young Queen Elizabeth II and rare currency specimens from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Staff initially had no idea of…

The Times of India · 6h ago

Barbra Streisand center leads $7.5m NIH study on women’s healthy aging

Aging is rarely a single-system story. The heart, brain, muscles and blood vessels change together, yet medical research has often studied them separately. A new five-year research project at Cedars-Sinai is taking a broader view, investigating whether damage to the body’s smallest blood vessels could help explain several health challenges…

The Times of India · 7h ago

A Smart Bed Flagged a 42-Beat Heart Rate Overnight, and Doctors Found a Dangerous Electrical Block

A smart bed clocked a 70-year-old's overnight heart rate at 42, far below his usual 78. Doctors found complete heart block and gave him a pacemaker.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

The Go-To Scan for a Stiff-Heart Disease Can Fall Short in Nearly 3 in 10 Patients Who Have It

The nuclear scan doctors use to spot transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis can miss a real share of cases. Here's why a negative result may not be final.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Postmenopausal Women Who Started Testosterone Had Eightfold Higher Rate of Cardiovascular Events, Though Absolute Risk Stayed Low

A health records study linked testosterone therapy in postmenopausal women to more heart and stroke events, though absolute rates were low and the cause is unproven.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Gym-Goers Who Quit Anabolic Steroids Saw Heart Walls Recover but Pumping Strength Stayed Lower in Norwegian Study

Men who quit anabolic steroids saw heart muscle thickening reverse, but pumping strength stayed lower in a small Norwegian study. Warning signs and how to get help.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Body Roundness Index Edged Out BMI as Heart Attack Predictor in 13-Year UK Study of 395,831 Adults

In 395,831 UK adults, the body roundness index predicted heart attacks slightly better than BMI. What the finding means and why the edge was small.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Heavy Lifting Shows Up Before Rare Heart Artery Tears in Men More Than 3 Times as Often as in Women

About 1 in 4 men with SCAD, a rare heart artery tear, reported lifting more than 50 pounds beforehand, compared with about 7% of women.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Lab-Based Urgency Score Ranked Sicker Heart Transplant Candidates Higher Than Today's Rules in a National Simulation

A JAMA study suggests a lab-based urgency score could rank heart transplant candidates by how sick they are, better than today's rules. What it could mean.

Medical Daily · Oct 15