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Potential new treatments for cardiovascular disease

Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers have identified a new mechanism responsible for the buildup of plaque on artery walls, a process known as atherosclerosis

Wear Red Day warns women about risks of heart attack and stroke

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Reading Time: 4 minutes To be held on Feb. 13, its goal is to arm women with knowledge and questions to ask their doctors

‘Five-minute rule’ for organ harvesting holds true for cardiac death

Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian-led international research examines physiology of the dying process in an effort to reassure families, recipients and medical staff about organ donation and transplantation

FDA approves new cardiovascular drug based on study at U of A

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Vericiguat, which was shown to reduce risk of cardiovascular death and heart failure, passes final regulatory hurdle in the United States

Collaboration key to solving medicine’s thorniest problems

Pharmacy researcher Khaled Barakat's research involves creating computer models to help develop potential new treatments for everything from hepatitis C and cancer to COVID-19. Barakat says the lessons he learned in his two years as a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Houghton's lab have served him well as he heads his own research group at the U of A. (Photo: Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Reading Time: 5 minutes For Khaled Barakat, a focus on teamwork and patient needs has led to breakthroughs in the search for cancer therapies, antivirals and safer drugs

Pioneering heart transplant expert named to Order of Canada

Reading Time: 6 minutes Lori West, whose breakthrough research revolutionized organ transplants for infants, joins Paralympics advocate Bob Steadward and former chancellor Douglas Stollery among the newest recipients of Canada’s highest honour

Women face higher risk of death or heart failure following a heart attack: study

Reading Time: 3 minutes Gap is closing, but U of A researchers find women are still given fewer tests and medications, and are less likely to see a specialist

Heart transplant expert explores link between blood group, COVID-19

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Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A pediatric cardiologist Lori West one of six researchers receiving $2.8 million in federal funding in fight against pandemic

Type 2 diabetes drug buys time for a failing heart: study

Reading Time: 4 minutes The diabetes drug increased ketone levels, which might be the key to improving cardiac metabolism

Report card evaluates influences on children’s healthy food choices

Reading Time: 3 minutes Poor diet right behind tobacco consumption as leading cause of premature death for Canadians, says public health expert

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