The Mayo Clinic Diet is sometimes used as a name for a diet plan based mainly on eggs, meat and grapefruit. Claims for it include that it is used on cardiac wards for patients needing to lose weight quickly, and that the grapefruit acts as catalyst to burn fat. However this diet is high in cholesterol and saturated fat. The British Heart Foundation and American Heart Association (among others) warn that these can cause heart problems.The Mayo Clinic refers to it as a myth and advises people not to follow it.

NOESIS will provide health professionals involved in research and cure of cardiac and cardiovascular diseases, with an easily and from everywhere accessible Knowledge Management system equipped with a Decision Support System tool, to be used for supporting them in their clinical decisions both in emergency situations and during their daily work...

Older women heart patients benefit from educational programs as a supplement to clinical care to help significantly lower cardiac symptoms, lose weight and increase physical activity, a new study shows. Different program formats produce different results for this notoriously difficult to treat patient population.

www.leebio.com, Lee Biosolutions has increased production of native human creatine kinase mb isoenzyme and is supplying in bulk recombinant creatine kinase MB (CKMB) isoenzymes to the clinical diagnostic market at LeeBio.com. Creatine kinase MB is a cardiac marker produced primarily in the heart.

RUBY HALL CLINIC, Pune’s premier hospital today formally announced the installation of Pune’s first 3D echo machine. Cardiac imaging has taken giant strides since the days of M-mode echocardiography. Subsequent advances of 2D echocardiography, colour flow imaging and continuous and pulsed wave Doppler and Trans Esophageal Echo (TEE) revolutionized

This is a dramatic interview of a patient recovering from heart failure after recieving stem cell therapy at Cellmedicine (www.cellmedicine.com). The use of stem cells for cardiac conditions is currently occuring the USA but patients who are not eligible for trials go to clinics outside the US such as Cellmedicine.