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AF AWARE Survey Identifies Major Gaps in Reality vs. Perceptions of Atrial Fibrillation by Cardiologists and Patients Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:16 AM PDT GENEVA--(Marketwire - 04/30/10) - Although serious and the most common of heart rhythm disorders, atrial fibrillation (AF) patients are unaware of the risks, complexities and consequences of AF and many doctors find its management to be a clinical and health-economic burden, according to survey results published today in the online edition of EP Europace. Results taken from an international ... Hospital has room to grow Omaha World-Herald Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:10 AM PDT Patients at the Bellevue Medical Center can get everything but organ transplants and open-heart surgery. Bellevue hospital ‘right-sized' Omaha World-Herald Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:06 AM PDT Patients can get everything but organ transplants and open-heart surgery. Duo 'embrace' cancer fight Chatham Daily News Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:05 AM PDT Orders are pouring in on Facebook for handmade beaded bracelets being turned out by two nine-year-old Chatham girls. Clair Boughner and Becca Charron are putting their heart and souls into the fight to find a cure for cancer by creating "Embrace lets." All proceeds will go to the Chatham Relay [...] WorldHeart Appoints Dr. John Campbell Woodard as Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT World Heart Corporation , a developer of mechanical circulatory systems, announced the appointment of Dr. John Campbell Woodard as Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs. Dr. Woodard will be responsible for clinical affairs and will also guide the development of World Heart's next- generation technologies. Protein Loss In The Urine Harmful For People With High Blood Pressure Medical News Today Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT Healthy people with high blood pressure who excrete a slight excess of protein in the urine raise their risk of developing kidney and heart complications. According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN), more attention should focus on the potential health effects of urinary protein excretion in individuals with high blood ... No-Stress Stress Test Brings Relief To Heart Failure Patients Medical News Today Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT The University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is the first academic medical center in the country to introduce a new "no stress" diagnostic system for assessing patients with heart failure and optimizing their treatment. A patient's heart efficiency is usually assessed using a stress test that requires near peak performance. "Heart failure patients are simply unable to undergo the kind of ... Thilges diagnosed now with cancer The Algona Upper Des Moines Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:22 AM PDT After more than five years battling heart disease and receiving a heart transplant last November, more bad news has been given to Denny Thilges of Bode. More than 1,000 hear four governors praise Bob Franks, mentor and friend, at cathedral Echoes-Sentinel Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:14 AM PDT WARREN TWP. â€" Former U.S. Rep. Bob Franks of Warren Township, who had died eight days earlier of cancer at the age of 58, was remembered on Saturday, April 17, at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Newark, in a 75-minute memorial attended by more than 1,000 people. Doctors use gene sequence to predict health risks CTV.ca Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:04 AM PDT More than two dozen a Quake's scientist colleagues combed through his genetic code to assess his chances of heart disease, diabetes, cancer. The results were published Friday in a medical journal.

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