News : American Heart Association

A UT Arlington bioengineering professor has been awarded a $140,000 American Heart Association grant to study how physical and biological factors influence the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, a condition that can lead to heart disease.

Kytai Nguyen, an associate professor of bioengineering associate professor, said a better understanding of how smooth muscle cells respond to changes in their...

SEIKO Introduces Signature “Go Red” Solar Tressia Watch to Support

American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women® movement
Mahwah, NJ (November 2011) – SEIKO Corporation of America is proud to announce its support of the American Heart Association, specifically the Go Red For Women® movement, with an exclusively designed “Go Red” SEIKO Solar Tressia watch created to support the fight against heart disease in...

A UT Arlington associate nursing dean is co-author of a new, nationally-noted paper that raises questions about the effectiveness of in-hospital use of automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.

The findings from the research team that included UT Arlington professor Beth Mancini and other researchers say that while AEDs improve survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, similar use in a hospital setting does...