New Test Diagnoses Heart Attack In Minutes, Not Hours

New Test Diagnoses Heart Attack In Minutes, Not Hours 

 Early-warning system

A new method for diagnosing heart attacks very early on could improve a patient’s chances of survival and reduce the amount of permanent damage that he or she suffers. Normally, it takes up to six hours to diagnose a heart attack with certainty. The new approach can do so in just 10 minutes by analyzing tiny biochemical markers in the blood, such as lipids, sugars, and amino acids–a technique known as metabolic profiling.

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Mars Express To Make Daring Flyby

Mars Express To Make Daring Flyby 

The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.

On 23 July, the unmanned craft will swoop to within just 97 kilometres of Phobos, using a battery of instruments, including a high-resolution stereo camera, infra-red scanner and atmospheric spectrometer.

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