Shivani Chopra, Vinod Kannarkat - Weddings

Source: The New York Times

Dr. Shivani Chopra, a daughter of Neelam and Jagdish Chopra of Orange, Calif., was married Saturday to Dr. Vinod Tony Kannarkat, the son of Devi Kannarkat and Dr. Tony P. Kannarkat of Potomac, Md. The Rev. Paul Kannarkat, a Roman Catholic priest ...
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Skin Cells From Heart Failure Patients Made Into Healthy New Heart Muscle Cells

Source: Medical News Today

Editor's Choice Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 25 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT For the first time in medical science, Israeli scientists have successfully turned skin cells from heart failure patients into healthy new heart muscle c ...
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Muscle From Skin Cells to Fix Damaged Hearts

Source: International Business Times

Scientists from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to use a patient's skin cells and convert them into heart muscle to repair damaged heart. They claim that the method is very effective compared to a previous ...
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Skin injury following prolonged fluoroscopy: early and late appearances

Source: QJM

In October 2005, a 45-year-old woman presented to our centre for evaluation of recurrence of palpitations following a cardiac electrophysiology study performed 7 weeks previously at another centre. The patient had a long history of a ...
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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Cardiac Cells to Help Failing Hearts

Source: MedicineNet

WEDNESDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- In a medical science first, researchers turned skin cells from heart failure patients into heart muscle cells that may then be used to fix damaged cardiac tissue. The researchers said the achievement -- done init ...
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Skin cells can become heart muscle: New study

Source: Indian Express

Opening new avenues for treatment of patients suffering from heart failure, researchers in Israel have shown that it is possible to generate cardiac myocytes from stem cells derived from the skin. The paper, published i ...
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Scientists turn skin cells into cardiac cells to help failing hearts

Source: WIS

In a medical science first, researchers turned skin cells from heart failure patients into heart muscle cells that may then be used to fix damaged cardiac tissue.More >> In a medical science first, researchers turned ski ...
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Have Israeli Scientists Discovered the Secret of Eternal Youth?

Source: International Business Times

Scientists have made a step forward in stem cell research for heart cells (Reuters) The groundbreaking research, which allows the new muscle cells to integrate with existing tissue and repair the organ, sugges ...
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Sports Medicine Staff Takes Part in BIG EAST Conference Symposium

Source: Georgetown University Official Athletic Site

WASHINGTON - Members of the Georgetown University Sports Medicine staff took part in the BIG EAST Conference Sports Medicine Society Symposium, held last week in Clearwater, Fla. The National Sports Medicine and Sports Law Confere ...
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