Patient First In North Texas To Receive Newest-generation Heart Failure Device
Medical News Today Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16 PM PDT
UT Southwestern Medical Center patient Michael LeBlanc, 40, is the first in North Texas to receive the newest generation of a mechanical device designed to improve heart function. It will be his lifeline while he awaits a heart transplant. Called a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD), its purpose is to help a patient's weakened heart pump blood throughout the body. For Mr. |
Madoff Investor Found Dead In Pool
The Harvard Crimson Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:14 PM PDT
Jeffry M. Picower, an education philanthropist who invested billions in Bernard L. Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, was found dead in his swimming pool after suffering a heart attack last Sundayâ€"less than a year after his foundation pulled the plug on millions of dollars in promised funding for diabetes research at the Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals. |
30 years for EMS volunteers
Westport News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13 PM PDT
The thousands of calls that Neil Harding responded to over the past three decades have blurred together in his mind. He never knows exactly what the call will be, whether it's a three-vehicle accident on the Post Road or a heart attack at someone's home. |
Fite’s death stuns family, friends and colleagues
Jacksonville News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:08 PM PDT
Lea Fite, a state representative and owner of a chain of local grocery stores, died suddenly this morning of an apparent heart attack. The news shocked friends and colleagues, many of whom were struck speechless. |
City mourns death of Lea Fite
Jacksonville News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:07 PM PDT
Residents in the Jacksonville area were stunned Monday morning as news spread that State Representative Lea Fite had died. Fite, 54, died at his home Monday morning at 7:30 after apparently suffering a heart attack. |
Afghan police: 7 dead in attack on UN in Kabul
Houston Chronicle Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:58 PM PDT
KABUL â€" Gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing at least seven people including three U.N. staff, officials said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was meant as an assault on the upcoming presidential election. |
High-tech cardio equipment is up to the minute
Memphis Commercial Appeal Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:02 PM PDT
Three days after the new cardiac monitors were placed on Southaven ambulances, paramedics at Station 3 were the first to put it to use as they worked to save a heart attack patient. The monitors approved in August by the board of aldermen at a cost of $126,000 were installed last week on all five city ambulances. And by next year, the monitors will enable emergency room doctors at Baptist ... |
Bryant announces new health initiative
The Meridian Star Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:42 PM PDT
JACKSON (AP) â€" Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant says Mississippi will join 14 other states in an initiative that aims to decrease the risk of heart disease. |
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