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8 Impressive Health Benefits and Uses of Parsley – EcoWatch

By Maria Zamarripa

Parsley is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean. The two most common types are French curly-leaf and Italian flat-leaf.

Over the years, parsley has been used to treat conditions like high blood pressure, allergies and inflammatory diseases (1).

Today, it’s widely used as a fresh culinary herb or dried spice. It’s bright green in color and has a mild, bitter flavor…

Diabetic drug shows potential to be repurposed as heart disease treatment for non-diabetic patients – News-Medical.net

The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee.

Scientists led by Professor Chim Lang, Head of the Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at Dundee, discovered that metformin has the potential to be repurposed as a heart disease treatment in non-diabetic…

Healthy Hearts Need Two Proteins Working Together – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

NIH research could be a step toward a treatment to prevent heart attacks

Two proteins that bind to stress hormones work together to maintain a healthy heart in mice, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators.

Without the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), the mouse heart is enlarged, and the animal eventually has heart failure (top).…

Diabetic drug shown to reduce the risk of heart disease in non-diabetic patients – EurekAlert

The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee.

Scientists led by Professor Chim Lang, Head of the Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at Dundee, discovered that metformin has the potential to be repurposed as a heart disease treatment in non-diabetic…

Diabetic drug shown to reduce the risk of heart disease in non-diabetic patients – Medical Xpress

Human heart. Credit: copyright American Heart Association

The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee.

Scientists led by Professor Chim Lang, Head of the Division of Molecular and…

Healthy hearts need two proteins working together | National Institutes of Health – National Institutes of Health

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

NIH research could be a step toward a treatment to prevent heart attacks

Two proteins that bind to stress hormones work together to maintain a healthy heart in mice, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators. These proteins, stress hormone receptors known as the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid…

Man gets 3 chances to live thanks to 2 heart transplants – KSAT San Antonio

TENNESSEE CITY, Tenn. – At any given moment, there are 3,000 people waiting to get a heart transplant in the United States.

Without enough donated organs, 20 people die each day waiting for a heart transplant.

Meet Peyton Boling, 21, who was not only given a second chance at life, but a third.

But a disease Boling developed when he was a baby caused…

A cardiologist revealed the truth behind red wine’s health benefits – INSIDER

Following is a transcript of the video.

Jack:This is an inviting glass of wine. Inside is about 125 calories, about 15% alcohol by volume, and some antioxidants. Of course, we didn’t always think about it this scientifically. Humans have been drinking wine since the Dark Ages. The ancient Greeks even worshipped a god of wine. It wasn’t until the 20th century that we started asking ourselves, is…

‘Added sugar’ food labels may prevent heart disease and diabetes – Science News

Nutrition label changes aimed at curbing America’s sweet tooth could have a sizable payoff for public health.

A new study projects that the updated labels, which detail the amount of sugar added to a food or drink, could help the average U.S. adult cut sugar consumption by around half a teaspoon a day. If that happens, the labeling change could prevent around 350,000 cases of cardiovascular…

Celery Sunshine [Vegan] – One Green Planet

While celery juice alone isn’t the most palatable juice, when combined with apples and lemon, it’s quite refreshing. This juice is the color of sunshine and is sure to brighten any morning.

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For Your Health: How to avoid a broken heart – MyCentralJersey.com

Ayotunde Adeyeri, M.D., FASMBS Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Center

Published 5:00 AM EDT Apr 16, 2019

It is important for people with weight challenges to be aware of the toll those extra pounds take on the heart muscle and how positively a stressed heart responds to significant weight loss. In overweight…

Half of patients on statins fail to reach ‘healthy’ cholesterol level after 2 years – Medical Xpress

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Half of patients prescribed statins in primary care fail to reach ‘healthy’ cholesterol levels after two years of treatment with these drugs, reveals research published online in the journal Heart.

The findings back up those of previous studies, and highlight the need for personalised…

Chillicothe’s #WonderfulWally is discharged from hospital 47 days after heart transplant – HOI ABC

After 100 days of living in hospitals, Chillicothe’s #WonderfulWally is finally discharged.

16-month-old Wally Bastian was born with Barth Syndrome and needed a heart transplant to live. After 41 days on the waiting list, Wally had a successful surgery in late February. However, his recovery was not easy. His mom, Kelsey, shared to his Facebook followers his on-going fight against infections.

It’…

Does intermittent fasting actually work? – WRAL.com

By UNC HealthTalk

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on UNC Health Care’s HealthTalk blog.

Most of today’s trendy diets have a lot of rules about what you can eat. Whole 30 restricts sugar, alcohol, grains, legumes, soy and dairy; Keto says no to carbs and limits protein. But intermittent fasting doesn’t dictate what you should be eating at all—only when to eat.

In intermittent…

Scientists create entire human heart with 3-D printer for the first time – New York Post

A team of Israeli scientists used a 3-D printer to create an entire human heart — a stunning achievement that could change the world of medicine by ending the reliance on donated organs, according to a study published Monday.

The world’s first “printed heart” was made with actual human biological material, although only about the size of a rabbit’s heart, making it too small for a human,…

Brainstorm Health: 3D Printed Heart, Measles Outbreak, SCOTUS Rejects Allergan Tribe Bid – Fortune

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Researchers develop first printed 3D heart in major scientific breakthrough – ABC News

For the first time in history, scientists have created a three-dimensional, fully vascularized human heart. The biomedically engineered heart was created using a 3D printer by researchers at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel.

Modeled on a human patient, the 3D heart “[matches] the immunological, cellular, biochemical, and anatomical properties of the patient,” Dr. Tal Dvir, study researcher…