A team of Israeli scientists under the leadership of Professor Smedar Cohen of Ben Gurion University of Isreal developed a curative gel codenamed BL-1040 which could prevent further tissue damage in heart attack survivors.This gel is made from brown seaweed and the scientists claim that it eliminates further heart attacks.

The first heart attack usually renders the heart tissues weak. Therefore,the heart starts working harder to meet the body’s circulation needs which is resultant upon further heart attacks.This gel is injected in the area of the heart where the damaged tissue from heart attack exists.The gel thickens the thinned damaged scar tissue thereby ensuring normal functioning of the heart.It was found out that the gel gets discarded by the body after six weeks.

The medicine was successfully administered on animals and 90 pecent of the animals injected with the gel survived heart attack as the reports say.Trials have been made on heart patients from Germany, Belgium and Israel and the medicine is anticipated to be in market by 2011.
This discovery can prove to be a milestone in the history of cardiovascular medical research.