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Standard procedure for heart attack found to be ineffective: Recent study finds oxygen therapy does NOT improve survival

Some of the common practices seen in modern medicine are not quite as effective as commonly believed, and oxygen therapy for heart attack patients could be one of them as newly presented research has shown that oxygen therapy does not improve the survival rate of patients who have heart attack symptoms. The study’s lead author, […]

Omega-3 improves heart damage, function after heart attack

Researchers found that people who took a high dose of omega-3 fatty acids every day for 6 months after a heart attack showed reduced heart muscle scarring and better heart function, compared with heart attack patients who took a placebo. Senior author Dr. Raymond Y. Kwong, director of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at Brigham and […]