Sentences with phrase «for damage to heart»

Not exact matches

As always, our team worked with local partners to carefully assess the damage and identify communities with the greatest need for help» noted Erik Dyson, C.E.O. of All Hands and Hearts.

My heart breaks for these children that were so horribly abused and the damage its done to their faith.

A debased notion of conscience — a barely concealed enthusiasm for autonomy disguised as an appeal to the primacy of conscience — weakens our sense of obligation, damages our purity of heart, and makes it harder to see God.

After describing the psychological damage done to girls who have been «protected» physically, she concludes «there is no condom for the heart.»

Anthocyanins, the antioxidants responsible for giving blueberries their color, protect cells from the damaging effects of oxidation, which is often linked to chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer.

Radwen Hamed played just six minutes for Tottenham's youth team... A High Court judge has ruled that Tottenham Hotspur breached their duties to their then 17 - year - old player, Radwan Hamed, who was left brain damaged after suffering a heart attack six minutes into his first youth game, according to the Daily Mail.

newborn anemia, respiratory distress leading to brain damage and / or death (rare, yes, but it happens), inadequate blood supply resulting in a need for transfusion, possible heart defects resulting from problems closing off the hole in the heart valves following birth.

So, for example, alienation of affections — a type of heart balm tort — allows a married person to sue a third - party paramour for damaging the relationship.

For example, Linda Hatfield, an instructor at Parenting From The Heart in Southern California, suggests that time - outs and other punishments aren't just useless, but they are «damaging» to children.

According to a recent article in Daily Mail, Dr. Nils Bergman, of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, says that «Their hearts were also under more stress... Sleeping alone makes it harder for mother and child to bond — and damages the development of the brain, leading to bad behaviour as the child grows up...»

Betty McBride, director of policy at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), added: «Exposure to second - hand smoke by non-smokers for just half an hour is enough to damage the lining of the heart's arteries and increase the risk of a heart atHeart Foundation (BHF), added: «Exposure to second - hand smoke by non-smokers for just half an hour is enough to damage the lining of the heart's arteries and increase the risk of a heart atheart's arteries and increase the risk of a heart atheart attack.

For a high - risk heart failure patient, Farra says, it might be possible for the device to monitor the heart for signs of a heart attack and release drugs to decrease damage to the heart muscle during a cardiac eveFor a high - risk heart failure patient, Farra says, it might be possible for the device to monitor the heart for signs of a heart attack and release drugs to decrease damage to the heart muscle during a cardiac evefor the device to monitor the heart for signs of a heart attack and release drugs to decrease damage to the heart muscle during a cardiac evefor signs of a heart attack and release drugs to decrease damage to the heart muscle during a cardiac event.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

«It is our hope that Dr. Yin's research will lead to additional potential therapeutic agents like ZF143 to reactivate mechanisms for the repair and regeneration of damaged heart muscle tissue in humans.»

Because her high blood pressure had gone untreated for years, her heart muscle had been damaged and was now unable to pump enough blood for her body's needs.

Because the conventional drugs used for treatment can seriously damage the kidneys and heart, doctors normally have to limit the dose that they give.

The day after his disciplinary dismissal from University of Tokyo for «damaging the university's honor or credibility,» Hisashi Moriguchi maintained in an interview with ScienceInsider that he really did participate in a groundbreaking experiment to treat a heart disease patient with cardiac muscle cells derived from the patient's own induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

For example, a diseased heart after a heart attack exhibits a less pronounced left ventricular twist due to local damage that extends through the heart wall.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

Some experimental heart attack treatments require surgery to open up the chest, but the two hydrogel materials already in clinical trials are injected into the damaged tissue through a long catheter inserted through the skin — eliminating the need for open - chest surgery.

For instance, researchers at other institutions have done animal studies in which they injected cells into the damaged section of the heart to try to repair damage.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

Breast cancer patients who are positive for the HER2 gene may be at increased risk for heart damage during chemotherapy, according to a new study published in ecancermedicalscience.

Zebrafish have emerged as an important vertebrate model for cardiovascular research for a number of reasons, including the ability to regenerate its heart if damaged, and because the transparency of the embryos allows easy observation of internal processes like blood vessel development.

The new findings suggest that manipulation of NAD could lead to a future therapy for acute kidney injury and also raise the possibility that mitochondrial injury and deficiency in NAD might underlie other types of organ damage, including damage that can lead to stroke or heart attack.

Several studies show that this cuts damage to heart muscle by about one - third following surgery to bypass blocked arteries, when the heart's blood supply must be stopped for up to an hour.

The polymer patch could one day lay down a pathway in areas damaged by heart disease for cells to regenerate and regrow, while the mesh itself slowly disintegrates within the body.

A blood test for a protein called high - sensitivity troponin T, which is released into the bloodstream when injury to the heart occurs, can identify patients with heart damage after non-cardiac surgery whose lives could potentially be saved with timely treatment, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.

CPR essentially consists of a pattern of chest compressions and rescue breaths (i.e. artificial blood circulation and lung ventilation) and is intended to maintain a trickle of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart and thereby extend the otherwise brief window of opportunity for successfully restarting the heart without permanent brain damage.

For many years, scientists worldwide have been searching for ways to stimulate the regeneration of damaged heart tissFor many years, scientists worldwide have been searching for ways to stimulate the regeneration of damaged heart tissfor ways to stimulate the regeneration of damaged heart tissue.

Struggling to balance on one leg for 20 seconds or longer was linked to an increased risk for small blood vessel damage in the brain and reduced cognitive function in otherwise healthy people with no clinical symptoms, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.

«The long - term risk of heart attack was insignificant, but risk of blood clots in the lung remained for years after surgery to replace a hip or knee damaged by osteoarthritis.»

Stem cells can morph to take on any role in the body, making them theoretically useful to treat conditions ranging from type 1 diabetes (replacing insulin - producing cells in the pancreas) to heart disease (taking over for damaged heart cells).

Through the UCSD Clinical Cardiovascular Cell Therapy program, Dib and collaborating cardiology faculty plan to conduct clinical studies in a number of areas, including the effectiveness of adult stem cell transplant as a treatment for congestive heart failure; as a way to minimize heart damage after a heart attack; and in the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) to increase blood flow to the heart for patients experiencing chest pain.

Muscle damaged by heart attacks can be repaired by an injectable gel that forms scaffolding, attracting stem cells and blood vessels in a study that may lead to a new method for reducing heart failure.

Together, the teams of Drs. Srivastava and Ding are confident that they will soon find a way to eliminate the need for genes entirely, thus using only a cocktail of small molecules to generate beating heart muscle and regenerating damaged hearts.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

A team of researchers that helped pioneer new gene - based therapies for muscular dystrophy has now pinpointed a genetic defect that leads to heart damage in some of the most severe forms of muscular...

«Scientists have tried for decades to treat heart failure by transplanting adult heart cells, but these cells can not reproduce themselves, and so they do not survive in the damaged heart,» explained Yu Zhang, MD, PhD, lead author on the study and a postdoctoral scholar at the Gladstone Institutes.

A team of researchers that helped pioneer new gene - based therapies for muscular dystrophy has now pinpointed a genetic defect that leads to heart damage in some of the most severe forms of muscular dystrophy.

Friedreich's ataxiais an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system, resulting in symptoms ranging from gait disturbance to speech problems; it can also lead to heart disease and diabetes.The ataxia of Friedreich's ataxia results from the degeneration of nerve tissue in the spinal cord, in particular sensory neurons essential (through connections with the cerebellum) for directing muscle movement of the arms and legs.

5/15/2008 New Role Found for a Cardiac Progenitor Population In a discovery that could one day lead to an understanding of how to regenerate damaged heart tissue, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that parent cells involved in embryonic development of the epicardium — the cell l...

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Greatest hope: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the U.S., and millions more survive a heart attack only to live a diminished life because their heart was damHeart disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the U.S., and millions more survive a heart attack only to live a diminished life because their heart was damheart attack only to live a diminished life because their heart was damheart was damaged.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will grant a patent to MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Voot P. Yin, Ph.D., and Kevin Strange, Ph.D., and their collaborator Michael Zasloff, M.D., Ph.D., for use of the small molecule MSI - 1436 to stimulate the repair and regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries such as a heart attack.

That damage can kill heart cells and lead to a poorly performing pump for the body's blood supply.

But heart cells never truly regenerate in the damaged tissue, and myofibroblasts compensate for their absence by forming a stiff, collagenous scar that interferes with the heart's ability to maintain stable heart rhythms and to expand and contract forcefully to pump blood.

Dorr had no idea the laboratory he envisioned would one day bring science to the brink of the conquest of aging - related diseases, lead to the development of drugs with the potential to repair damaged hearts or grow to become an international center for training in the biomedical sciences.

For example, the zebrafish, a common aquarium specimen, possesses the remarkable ability to rapidly replace damaged and lost body parts including limbs, heart, and nervous system, making it an ideal model for defining the genetic mechanisms of regeneration and healing and for identifying drug candidates for use in regenerative mediciFor example, the zebrafish, a common aquarium specimen, possesses the remarkable ability to rapidly replace damaged and lost body parts including limbs, heart, and nervous system, making it an ideal model for defining the genetic mechanisms of regeneration and healing and for identifying drug candidates for use in regenerative medicifor defining the genetic mechanisms of regeneration and healing and for identifying drug candidates for use in regenerative medicifor identifying drug candidates for use in regenerative medicifor use in regenerative medicine.