The common heart urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) occurs in all oceans.
He had what his doctor called "a common heart rhythm disturbance".
Atrial fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia that affects millions of Americans, causes blood to pool in a small pouch.
The laboratories checked for about 100 different drugs, but not for digoxin, the common heart medication that investigators now think was Mr. Cullen's favorite weapon.
Then for 90 minutes, the doctors were given MP3 devices and asked to listen to five common heart murmurs 400 times.
A common heart condition, irregular heartbeat, which under normal conditions poses little problem, may have more serious consequences if a heart attack strikes.
A drug for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis taken by thousands of women in Britain nearly doubles the risk of a common heart condition, scientists warned yesterday.
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 20 — Federal regulators should relax restrictions on which patients are included in clinical trials of a widely used treatment for a common heart malfunction, a panel of experts told the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.
Although the initial use of Xarelto will be in preventing blood clots after hip- and knee-replacement surgery, the big commercial potential lies in using it to prevent strokes in people with atrial fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia.
Recently, a Danish study in the British medical journal BMJ reported a link between pregnant women's use of several antidepressants in the S.S.R.I. class, including Celexa and Zoloft, and an increased risk for a common heart defect in babies.
In a 1992 study at Duke Medical Center, a leading teaching hospitals, 63 residents in internal medicine were asked to listen to three common heart murmurs programmed into a mannequin.
