It is very rightly said: "Everything is alright in the end, If its not alright its not the end." This proved to be true for a 16 year old girl as she recovered from a tumultuous period in her life to be back to...
Pop icon Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009. Paramedics rushed to Jackson's home after suffering a cardiac arrest. So what is a cardiac arrest and how does it differ from a heart attack? A heart attack is when there is damage to the muscles of the heart, usually due to...
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U.S. Researchers informed an American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans about the possible interference that MP3 player headphones might post to cardiac equipment. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators'...
In a great scientific discovery which will benefit millions of people all over the world, Heart specialists have been able to create the artificial heart. The first entirely artificial heart should be ready for human trials 'within two and a half years'. The prosthetic...
Kill me now ! but don't forget to resuscitate !"Southampton, UK — An AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is to be launched by the Human Consciousness Project of the University of Southampton – an...
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A malfunction in the regulation of the brain chemical serotonin may be at the root of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), new research suggests. " Reporting in the July 4 issue ofScience, Italian researchers...
"TAMPA -- Staff at Tampa General Hospital mistakenly started performing a cardiac catheterization last week on the wrong patient, hospital officials said Wednesday evening.The man was not harmed, and the hospital is conducting an internal investigation. Staff members failed...
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I suppose this is a bit different to almost strangling your partner to increase arousal.Begs the one-liner "Baby, you turn me on""The York Record reports on a 37-year-old Lower Windsor Township man being charged with using electricity to shock his wife to death in what...
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These Customs and ICE agents are the modern Keystone Cops. I
wonder how many spy’s terrorists or basic criminals crossed that same
border while these guy’s held up a heart attack victim?"WINDSOR, Ont. — An...
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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reports are emerging that some St Jude Riata Defibrillator Wires are in rare instances puncturing holes in the hearts of cardiac patients, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday in its online edition.
The devices in question -- the Riata line of...
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"ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A European study released on Tuesday has raised new concerns about the safety of women's long-term use of the birth control pill, suggesting increased risk of heart attack or stroke.
Women who had used oral contraceptives were more likely than...
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"MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Bayer AG suspended worldwide sales of Trasylol, a clotting drug using during heart surgery to prevent bleeding, on Monday following a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove the drug from the American market for safety...
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Jena, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Occlutech GmbH, the leading
European manufacturer of cardiac occlusion devices such as ASD, PFO and
LAA occluders today announced that it has initiated invalidation
proceedings against AGA's European patent in the U.K.
Most of the...
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Tokyo (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Abbott Vascular Japan Co. Ltd. today announced the opening of the Crossroads Institute, a facility designed by Abbott to provide physicians in Asia with access to the latest advanced minimally invasive cardiac and vascular treatments...
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