AI-powered cardiology assistant is helping doctors detect heart risk before it’s too late – ET HealthWorld

AI-powered cardiology assistant is helping doctors detect heart risk before it’s too late – ET HealthWorld

When Naman Gosalia’s father suffered a sudden heart attack without any prior symptoms or abnormal reports, it was a moment that shattered assumptions. Fit, active, and medically “normal” — he didn’t fit the profile of someone at risk. But that single emergency became the beginning of something much larger: AnginaX, an AI-powered cardiology assistant that … Read more

Is Digital Health the Future of Cardiac Care? A Look at Wearables and Telemedicine in Heart Health – ET HealthWorld

Is Digital Health the Future of Cardiac Care? A Look at Wearables and Telemedicine in Heart Health – ET HealthWorld

You don’t always hear the warning signs of a failing heart, but what if your watch could? India is facing a silent cardiac crisis. Heart diseases are claiming more lives here than ever before, with 272 out of every 100,000 people succumbing to it, more than the global average of 235. With heart-related conditions rising … Read more

Police launch investigation into heart operation deaths at NHS hospital

Police launch investigation into heart operation deaths at NHS hospital

Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News BBC Christine Rymer says she had no idea what her mother, Dorothy Readhead, had endured until she was contacted by the BBC Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of patients following heart operations at an NHS hospital, the BBC has learned. Documents seen by us suggest … Read more

Heart surgeries performed on 15 children at Andhra Hospitals

Heart surgeries performed on 15 children at Andhra Hospitals

Mothers with their children who underwent heart surgeries at the cardiology and cardiac surgical camp organised at the Heart and Brain Institute, Andhra Hospitals in association with Healing Little hearts, UK, in Vijayawada on Friday. | Photo Credit: RAO GN A team of paediatric cardiologists performed heart surgeries on 15 children at Heart and Brain Andhra Hospitals, said cardiac surgeon, Dr. Nageswara Rao. The surgeries were … Read more

‘One-of-a-kind’ girl born with heart outside chest has pioneering surgery

‘One-of-a-kind’ girl born with heart outside chest has pioneering surgery

Sarah Hawley BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now aged seven, was born with her heart outside of her body Vanellope Hope Wilkins made medical history when she was born with her heart outside of her body in 2017. Described by experts as “one of a kind”, Vanellope had three operations to place … Read more

NHS maternity care: What are the problems at the heart of its failures?

NHS maternity care: What are the problems at the heart of its failures?

Michael Buchanan Social Affairs Correspondent BBC By the entrance to Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness sits a sculpture of a moon with 11 stars. It is a memorial to the mother and babies who died unnecessarily due to poor care at the hospital between 2004 and 2013. Inscribed underneath is a short verse: “Forever in … Read more

Bodybuilding: ‘Steroids gave me heart failure at 30’

Bodybuilding: ‘Steroids gave me heart failure at 30’

Avatar1338 Joey Farrell is one of an estimated 500,000 people in the UK using anabolic steroids He had heart failure at 30 and believes taking steroids will reduce his life by 20 years – but Joey Farrell continues using muscle-building drugs for “the sake of his career”. The professional bodybuilder knows the health warnings and … Read more

Scientists trial implant to patch up the heart

Scientists trial implant to patch up the heart

Philippa Roxby Health reporter University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein The heart muscle patches are grown from millions of human stem cells Damaged hearts could be mended using small “patches” of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature. The technology could give new hope to millions of people with advanced heart failure whose treatment … Read more