http://www.helixexams.com Medical Directory en-us A device as small as a human hair is helping some doctors in Northeastern Wisconsin determine who needs open heart surgery. Not knowing was the hardest part for 74-year-old Nancy McCrary. "What would they find?" Aurora BayCare doctors discovered Nancy had an artery blockage. They needed to put her under anesthesia for a minor procedure to check it out. http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7428892 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:32:17 MST http://www.helixexams.com/article/Tiny-Wire-Provides-Big-Answers-to-Heart-Disease-1046.html Oranges have been from time immemorial a staple food in the Mediterranean countries. They have also been a major player in protecting the people of that region from heart disease. Thus, if you never thought of oranges as a "must" food for your heart, here are some good reasons to start doing so. http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Food_and_Nutrition_690/Oranges_a_Major_Player_in_the_Prevention_of_Heart_Disease.shtml Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:30:58 MST http://www.helixexams.com/article/Oranges-a-Major-Player-in-the-Prevention-of-Heart-Disease-1045.html Children who snore and breathe irregularly while they sleep may be at risk for developing cardiovascular disease, according to researchers at the University of Louisville in Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association. A team under the direction of David Gozal, director of the Kosair Children's Hospital Research Insitute and chief of pediatric sleep medicine at UofL, found that obstructive sleep apnea could harm blood vessels, but that treating OSA in a timely fashion could help prevent future heart disease in some children. http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=1041 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:30:07 MST http://www.helixexams.com/article/Researchers-find-possible-link-between-childhood-sleep-disorder-heart-disease-1044.html The early signs of heart disease may show up in your handwriting, says one researcher, an idea others have likened to palm reading. Findings of study carried out at the UK's Poole Hospital were presented at a recent International Graphonomics Society conference in Melbourne. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/11/19/2093164.htm?site=science&topic=latest Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:29:21 MST http://www.helixexams.com/article/Handwriting-a-window-to-your-heart-1043.html New research suggests that depression does not cause heart attacks or related problems in patients with heart disease. Multiple studies have described strong associations between depression and heart problems in people with heart disease. However, lead author Dr. Ralph A. H. Stewart, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues suggest in their paper, published in a recent issue of the European Heart Journal, that many of these studies only looked at the period soon after a heart attack or other cardiac event. http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=121782 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:28:56 MST http://www.helixexams.com/article/Depression-May-Not-Cause-Heart-Problems-1042.html