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Stopping fatty change in heart cells News-Medical-Net Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:07 PM PDT Heart failure is one of the world's most frequent causes of death - caused by conditions such as diabetes and obesity. With people who are overweight, the heart has to do more work in order to pump the blood through the circulatory system and this causes an increase in blood pressure. Defibrillators installed on NSW trains BigPond News Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:54 PM PDT Life-saving devices to help heart attack victims are being installed at NSW stations and on trains. HEARTS aims to save young lives 11 News Houston Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:27 PM PDT Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a silent killer. Often families do not realize their child has a heart condition until it is too late. Last year, two Houston area students died from heart abnormalities. Both were girls who were in the middle of playing basketball when they died on the court from sudden cardiac arrest. NMT Medical Announces Results of Its 2009 Annual Meeting Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:00 PM PDT BOSTON----NMT Medical, Inc. , an advanced medical technology company that designs, develops, manufacturers and markets proprietary implant technologies that allow interventional cardiologists to treat structural heart disease through minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures, announced today the results of its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was held at 1:00 p.m. today at the ... Einstein releases e-zine YourNabe.com Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:28 PM PDT Last April, the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, launched a new, online publication, Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine, a unique, timely and free e-magazine and web site (www.pulsemagazine.org) featuring first-person accounts of illness, health and encounters with our health care system. ... Jane's Addiction joins effort to help man seeking heart transplant LiveDaily Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:27 PM PDT Following in the footsteps of their current touring partners Nine Inch Nails [ tickets ] , alt-rock icons Jane's Addiction [ tickets ] are offering fans a unique VIP experience with the band in return for donations aimed at helping a dying man get a heart transplant. "Since this fundraiser began, the Jane's guys have been wanting to contribute somehow and they've come up with something really ... Hickman Community Hospital Receives U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Grant for Heart Failure Program Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:27 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn.----Hickman Community Hospital, a member of the Saint Thomas Health Services family of hospitals, was recently awarded a $372,594 Health Resources and Services Administration grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to fund a Rural Heart Failure Outreach Consortium project. Mediterranean Cruise Cafe’s 2nd chapter begins in Heart of City Burnsville Thisweek Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:21 PM PDT Jamal Ansari is in the second chapter of his restaurant career. In the first, the young Palestinian emigrated from Jerusalem to Minnesota to study chemistry and wound up opening the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe in Eagan. Crowded Emergency Clinics Pose Greater Risks For Patients With Heart Attacks redOrbit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:09 PM PDT Patients with heart attacks and other forms of chest pain are three to five times more likely to experience serious complications after hospital admission when they are treated in a crowded emergency department (ED), according to a new study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. Economy pushes drug costs out of reach redOrbit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:09 PM PDT Many Americans say they cannot afford critical prescription drugs, even with government help, low-cost generics and chain-store discounting. I take the ones I can afford and then trust in the Lord, Robert Brown, 60, who has heart disease and emphysema, tells The New York Times at a drugstore in Rocky Mount, N.C. National surveys find that as many as a third of U.S.

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