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WLNS TV 6 Lansing Jackson Michigan News and Weather - WLNS.COM | Health Connections - Featured Specialists WLNS Lansing Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:14 AM PDT The mission of the Mid-Michigan Heart Group is to provide first-rate patient care. Our staff collaborates with patients and referring physicians to ensure a positive experience for our communities. Leeds children's heart surgery decision put on hold Yorkshire Evening Post Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:10 AM PDT A decision over the future of children's heart surgery in Leeds has been delayed because of an investigation into death rates. Researchers Discover A Drug Combination That Shrinks Prostate Tumors In Vivo Medical News Today Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:08 AM PDT Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have shown that the impotence drug Viagra, in combination with doxorubicin, a powerful anti-cancer drug, enhances its anti-tumor efficacy in prostate cancer while alleviating the damage to the heart at the same time. For more than four decades the chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin has been used to treat ... Get a Leg Up on Heart Health Says Society of Interventional Radiology PR Newswire via Yahoo! News Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:00 AM PDT Legs For Life® Program Provides Screening for Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) to Protect One's Health, Life Blood Pressure Unaffected By Pine-Bark Extract Medical News Today Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:40 AM PDT Add pine-bark extract to the list of dietary supplements that don't live up to their promises of improved health. A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that pine-bark extract had no effect in lowering blood pressure or reducing other risk factors for heart disease. Senior author Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, said the findings are part of a growing body of evidence that ... Mending broken hearts: New device allows people to live with heart failure Canada.com Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:38 AM PDT Ian Hauck has no pulse, but he’s very much alive. He wouldn’t be, says his mother Kathy, if a ventricular assist device (VAD) wasn’t doing the work of the left side of his heart. Researchers Use CT To Predict Heart Disease Medical News Today Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:38 AM PDT Using incidental findings from routine diagnostic CT, radiologists may be better able to identify people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study appearing online and in the November issue of Radiology. "The results of this study show that radiologists can predict cardiovascular disease fairly well using incidental findings of calcifications of the aortic wall on CT ... Charlie Brooker | Team sports are good for teaching kids how to feign enthusiasm and harbour resentment Guardian Unlimited Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:30 AM PDT Standing up to the bullies was not an option for me, but nor was becoming brilliant at sport Ministers are concerned that Britain's schoolkids aren't doing enough team sports. Good for them. The kids, that is. Not the ministers. I'll dumbly and instinctively side with anyone trying to bunk off games. Apart from preventing obesity and heart attacks and diabetes and high blood pressure and ... St. Jude Medical Announces Principal Investigators in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Clinical Trial Business Wire Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:12 AM PDT ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced that physicians from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute will lead the company’s transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) clinical trial. The study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the St. Jude Medical transcatheter aortic valve for patients who experience severe ... Gate Lady Publishing Announces Launch Of Debut Award-Winning Book Business Wire Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:11 AM PDT SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Award-winning author and photographer Carolyn CJ Jones celebrates the release of her inspirational new book, Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing. The book launch is Friday, October 8, 2010, at the Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Avenue at E Street in San Rafael, California, 94901. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 pm, followed at 7:15 ...

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