New Heart Muscle Cells Grow From Patients' Skin
In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of integrating with exisiting heart tissue, opening up the prospect of repairing heart damage in heart failure patients using their own stem cells... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Mental Distraction Provides Pain Relief
A new study reveals that mental distractions can reduce the amount of pain an individual experiences. The study appears online in Current Biology. The researchers asked study participants to complete either a difficult or easy memory task while a painful level of heat was applied to their arms. Both tasks required participants to remember letters. They found that participants who completed the harder memory task experienced less pain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)