Angioplasty saves life of 104-year-old

Thirty years ago and about three miles from the heart of Downtown, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant that provided good manufacturing jobs in Memphis for nearly five decades wound down to a close. Firestone's shutdown marked the early stage of ...

Heart muscle cells aligning and stretching within the MeTro gel material (Image: Khademhosseini lab) Image Gallery (3 images) One of the things that makes heart disease so problematic is the fact that after a heart attack occurs, the scar tissue ...

RIGHT in the heart of Quezon City sits the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center (NAPWC)—a patch of green in the middle of a concrete jungle, where birds, bees and trees still thrive. Situated in the outskirts of the Quezon City Circle where the ...

PR Newswire DETROIT, May 23, 2013 DETROIT, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A crowd of 30,000 participated in this year's 22nd Annual Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure®, held Saturday, May 18, at Comerica Park. The Detroit Race, ...

The Padma Vibhushan and Dr BC Roy National Awardee, Dr Purshottam Lal, an eminent cardiologist and chairman of Metro Hospital and Heart Institute, Noida has set the world record by successfully performing angioplasty with stenting on a 104-year-old ...

104-year-old Hari Singh on Friday, became the oldest man in the world, to successfully undergo an angioplasty at the Metro Hospital and Heart Institute. The doctors performed an emergency operation to insert stent into Singh’s blocked artery on Thursday ...

A public awareness programme on diabetes was organised by National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology (NIDE) in collaboration with Department of Pathology, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Ojha Campus, Karachi to mark National Pathology ...

For the last year and a half, residents of the Washington, D.C., metro area have been blizzarded with direct mail and print and media ads promoting a $139 package of "five life-saving tests for heart disease and stroke." The tests are targeted at ...

Former president & CEO of the Kauffman Foundation and University Professor at Syracuse University Carl J. Schramm joined a panel of local thought leaders at the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) to emphasize the role of entrepreneurs in growing the ...