Cardiac arrhythmia

A 69-year-old man who had been missing since September 2023 after violating his prison leave was arrested on Wednesday, police said. 

The man had been handed a total prison sentence of 26 months and a fine of 750 euros or an unspecified crime.

The 31-year-old police officer injured with a naval flare in a confrontation with volleyball hooligans on Thursday night is in a medically induced coma, his doctors at Nikaia General State Hospital have said.

He remains in critical condition in intensive care following a second surgery on his thigh.

A pioneering study conducted by cardiologists and radiation oncologists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis unveils the potential use of radiation therapy, traditionally employed against cancer, to address ventricular tachycardia in patients suffering from a fatal irregular heart rhythm.

Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of dozens of people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 36.

More than 3,000 rescuers were deployed in Las Tejerias, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital Caracas, after Venezuela's worst natural disaster in decades.

“We are not talking about a 12-year-old child, but about a heart that has struggled for many years and developed an arrhythmia”

Cardiac arrest survivors were aware of what was going on around them while they were “dead” before being “brought back to life”

The main opposition leader has slammed the government after two soldiers died of hypothermia while keeping the night guard in the eastern Anatolian province, demanding a full-scale probe into the incident.

Four tourists have died in the Swiss Alps and five others are in a bad state after being forced to spend the night out in the Pin d'Arola area because of bad weather, police of Canton Vale said.
 
The rescuers found a total of 14 people, some of whom had hypothermia, and one was dead, apparently as a result of a fall.

A Harvard University study suggests that eating moderate amounts of chocolate could reduce the risks of a potential heart condition by one quarter. The research was conducted on a sample of more than 50,000 people and found strong links between a weekly consumption of the sweet and lowered a heart condition known as flutter.

Police in a region of Greece that borders Turkey say another person has died of hypothermia on a route used by migrant smugglers despite freezing temperatures.

Authorities said the body of a man was discovered buried in snow outside a Greek village on Monday. They think he probably died over the weekend.