liveonearth | Entries tagged with heart

Your vision
will become clear
only when
you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside,
awakes.
--Carl Jung

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy... Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness.
--the Dalai Lama

The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

Cardiac devices. Yep. Most of them are covered by insurance. All those fancy gizmos that they are so eager to install in us, whenever we have a little heart trouble, those gizmos are increasingly suspect. The situation has gotten so bad that the GAO is pushing the FDA to take a more active role in overseeing devices used by the cardiac care medical industry.

During the period covered by the report ('05-'09), medical-device makers initiated 3510 device recalls, which cover everything from "field corrections" to revised labeling to retrieving a device from customers. The agency categorized about 83% of these recalls as class II, indicating the devices may cause temporary adverse health consequences, and 14% as class III, indicating the device is not likely to cause any adverse consequences. Only 4% were class I recalls, deemed by the FDA to have a reasonable risk of causing serious adverse health consequences or death.

During this time, cardiovascular devices were the most commonly recalled products: 532 recalls, making up 15% of all recalls during this period, while the 40 class-I recalls of cardiovascular devices represented 31% of all class-I recalls in the period. The largest number for cardiovascular devices involved automatic external defibrillators.

The next most common category is radiological devices, which accounted for 484 total recalls but only two class I recalls, followed by general hospital and personal-use devices, which accounted for 388 recalls overall, including 31 class I recalls.

SOURCE
http://www.theheart.org/article/1244193.do?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20110627_EN_Heartwire

A new study has verified what we already knew. The mechanism is unclear but the association is strong.
( Read more. )

http://lynnvannoy.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/an-evening-with-don-miguel-ruiz/

Last week I went to my first ever Kundalini class, taught by a fellow student. I had no idea what to expect, and was open to whatever happened. In the beginning I was informed that Kundalini is NOT a Hatha yoga. OK. The practice involved several exercises in which we laid on our backs and held our arms and feet in the air, while practicing the breath of fire. The breath of fire consists of rapid forced exhalations with relaxed but fast inhalations. The exhalations may be through the nose or mouth, depending.
( more )

( Scan down for the section on hypertension (high blood pressure) and common treatments. )

( study notes )

( notes taken during class )

Here's a nice link to a paper on heart signaling, thanks to Sara:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1413606

More to come, when I have a chance to really figure this one out for myself.

Also, from Mercola, they've figured out how cholesterol damages the heart:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/13/here-s-how-cholesterol-damages-your-heart.aspx

http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/jcs.006916v1

Today at 8am I went into the lab and held in my hands a human heart. I have studied anatomy many times before. I have dissected a living pregant mouse, a frog, and a pelican whose gut contents did not reveal the reason he was dead on the beach. I have dissected a fetal pig, complete with colored plastic injected into his arteries and veins. I have held a cow's heart in my hands. I have studied the flows and construction of hearts. But holding a human heart is different.

( Heart notes from lab )

INTERESTING TIMES

are better than no times at all.

Entries tagged with heart

QotD: Awakening

QotD: Temples

Word of the Day: Truthiness

Guess what Medical Equipment is Most Likely to be Recalled?

Eating Your Veggies Prevents Heart Attacks

Don Miguel Ruiz got a heart transplant

Kundalini Yoga

Organ Systems II: Hypertension and Diuretics

Organ Systems I: Heart (Part 1)

Organ Systems I: Heart and ECGs (Part 3)

Hyperkalemia, Cholesterol, and the Heart

Have a Heart: Learning Anatomy in a Cadaver Lab

Profile

May 2025

Syndicate

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags