{"id":28221,"date":"2016-07-24T05:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/major-breakthrough-against-heart-failure-after-scientists-use-stem-cells-in-astonishing-trial-which-could-help-millions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:18","slug":"major-breakthrough-against-heart-failure-after-scientists-use-stem-cells-in-astonishing-trial-which-could-help-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/major-breakthrough-against-heart-failure-after-scientists-use-stem-cells-in-astonishing-trial-which-could-help-millions","title":{"rendered":"Major breakthrough against heart failure after scientists use stem cells in \u2018astonishing\u2019 trial which could help millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-breakthrough-against-heart-failure-after-scientists-use-stem-cells-in-astonishing-trial-which-could-help-millions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heart attack patients who were not expected to live are fit and healthy after scientists regenerated their hearts with stem cells in a ground-breaking trial which could help millions of people with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/01\/heart-failure-hospital-admissions-triple-in-ten-years\/\">heart failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research is the first to show that scarring of heart muscle, associated with a heart attack can be reversed, a feat which doctors believed was impossible, and which could eventually end the need for transplants.<\/p>\n<p>Scarring of the heart stops the organ pumping blood effectively and can lead to further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/08\/phone-app-that-can-detect-heart-attack-a-week-out-considered-by\/\">attacks<\/a> and sudden death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/07\/24\/major-breakthrough-against-heart-failure-after-scientists-use-st\/?utm_content=buffer9eb2b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/07\/24\/major-breakthr...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart attack patients who were not expected to live are fit and healthy after scientists regenerated their hearts with stem cells in a ground-breaking trial which could help millions of people with heart failure. The research is the first to show that scarring of heart muscle, associated with a heart attack can be reversed, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66804,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions\/66804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}