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Apple scores victory in dispute over heart monitoring technologies in Apple Watch

06.12.2022

In a significant victory, Apple has successfully challenged patents at the center of a high-profile dispute with medical device company AliveCor. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and …

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Health

Study: religious practice, spirituality can improve Black Americans’ cardiovascular health

25.08.2022

For as long as Daniel McKizzie can remember, church has been part of his life. McKizzie — Reverend McKizzie to his congregation — is the pastor and founder of New …

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In the Lab

New research digs into the genetic drivers of heart failure, with an eye to precision treatments

04.08.2022

When coronary arteries are blocked, starving the heart of blood, there are good medications and treatments to deploy, from statins to stents. Not so for heart failure, the leading factor …

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Coronavirus

Listen: CRISPR for the heart, biotech’s recovery, & what it means to be a ‘hot girl’

14.07.2022

Can CRISPR edit out a heart attack? What happens on #GutTok? And is health care recession-proof? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech …

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Health / Pharma

Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows

15.06.2022

A new study finds that a popular erectile dysfunction drug, which is increasingly being used to try to prevent heart complications in people with type 2 diabetes, doesn’t benefit women …

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Health

Daily aspirin offers little to no benefit for most adults trying to prevent heart disease, new report says

26.04.2022

Taking low-dose aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack or stroke provides little to no benefit to people without cardiovascular disease but could instead increase the risk of dangerous …

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Advice shifting on aspirin use for preventing heart attacks

12.10.2021

Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday. …

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‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

05.10.2021

There’s a reason why the nation’s largest and longest-running study of cardiovascular disease in African Americans calls Jackson, Miss., home. That community, like others in the southeastern United States, has …

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Health Tech

With Apple’s backing, can an app help heart attack patients navigate recovery?

03.08.2021

In July 2016, two cardiologists and a handful of computer scientists and developers rolled up in a minivan to Apple’s special projects office in Cupertino, Calif., with a big idea …

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