UTHSCSA.edu - Patients in severe heart failure who are too sick for transplantation have another lifesaving option these days — surgery to implant a new compact, lightweight ventricular assist device (VAD) - the FDA-approved second generation VAD called HeartMate II. The procedure is available in San Antonio from Jay D. Pal, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiothoracic [...]

AHA - Three different weight-loss diets - a low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet - were equally effective in helping overweight people to reverse atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries after losing moderate amounts of weight and improving their blood pressure, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers [...]

The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9, 2010 issue of Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably [...]

MUHC.ca - Vitamin D, readily available in dietary supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, led a team of scientists from McGill University and the Université de Montréal who presented their findings about vitamin D and [...]

Pycnogenol®, an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, counteracts kidney damage caused by hypertension, lowering urinary proteins and improving blood flow to the kidneys, according to a study published in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The findings were also relevant to complementary [...]

news.ku.dk - Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.
For T-cells [...]