Thought I would share this funny little joke that I ran across today… since cardiology is so darn specialized…
What’s the difference between a general practitioner and a specialist?
One treats what you have, the other thinks you have what he treats.
I actually chuckled out loud!
via Professional Jokes 

A new “patch” that is placed on damaged portions of a heart can help regenerate cardiac cells after a heart attack and regenerate heart function. This is pretty amazing stuff. Now if we can make the transition from rats to humans we could see a decrease in the need for heart transplants.
“Normally, adult human hearts do not regenerate because the heart doesn’t make more cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) after injury,” explained lead researcher Dr. Bernhard Kuhn, from the Department of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. “It would be desirable to induce the heart to make new cardiomyocytes after …read more

Cardiovascular disease is typically associated with the excessive lifestyle of developed countries – higher fat, salt, and sugar intake coupled with physical inactivity. But even in developing countries, heart disease is a serious problem; it kills 13 million people, more than three times the number dying from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Considering that most of the world’s population live in a developing country, heart disease is a problem too big to ignore.
Dr. Runlin Gao, a cardiologist at Fu Wai Hospital:
The total disease burden of cardiovascular disease in China is higher than in the United States and most other Western countries. …read more