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Fallen DPD officer honored during softball tournament Douglas Dispatch Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:17 PM PDT Five years ago this past Saturday Douglas Police Officer Ray Rios was chasing a suspect on foot through the streets of Douglas when he suffered a heart attack and died on the scene leaving behind a wife and four kids. Ask Dr. H: Thai food and all that coconut milk The Philadelphia Inquirer Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:16 PM PDT Question: I enjoy Thai food, but how bad is it with all that coconut milk? Answer: Coconut milk/coconut oil does contain a high amount of saturated fats, particularly lauric acid. In general, saturated fats raise LDL "bad" cholesterol and are felt to contribute to heart disease. Man facing jail time dies before sentencing The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:14 PM PDT A Fredericksburg-area man who pleaded guilty in federal court to making false claims and theft of government property has died before sentencing. According to family members, John Patton Straiton IV, 66, died last Wednesday night from a heart attack, said Christopher Leibig, an Alexandria-based attorney who represented Straiton.... Chest pain relief is on its way at Texas Health Plano Courier Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:13 PM PDT Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Plano recently received full Cycle III Chest Pain Center accreditation, which is the highest accreditation possible for treatment of chest pain from the Society of Chest Pain Centers, a nonprofit international society dedicated to the belief that heart disease can be eliminated as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide. Cruising the heart’s highways: Artery Explorer takes visitors on virtual tour Plano Courier Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:09 PM PDT Conner Hammett / Staff Photo - The Artery Explorer is touring the United States and made a stop at The Medical Center of Plano Sept. 17. The Medical Center of Plano hosted a visit Sept. 17 of a special machine that gives people an eye-opening virtual tour of the human arteries. Amrit Kakaria, well known Indian American scribe, dead New Kerala Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:08 PM PDT New York, Sep 28 : Amrit Kakaria, a leading Indian-American journalist, has died of a heart attack in New York. He was 72. National › 6,800 die annually from passive smoking, says health ministry Japan Today Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:55 PM PDT Some 6,800 people are estimated to die from lung cancer or heart disease caused by passive smoking annually in Japan, of whom more than half,… Oops! Patient vitals online New York Post Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:48 PM PDT A staffer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital mistakenly placed snippets of medical records and other personal data for thousands of patients on an unsecured computer server, officials said yesterday. The data for 6,800 patients at the hospital, part of the Columbia University Medical Center, included names, ages, blood pressure, heart... Pine bark extract offers no heart benefit: study AsiaOne Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:42 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Popular supplements made from pine bark extract do nothing to reduce blood pressure or lessen other heart risk factors in high-risk patients, U.S. researches said on Monday. Researchers use CT to predict heart disease EurekAlert! Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:31 PM PDT ( Radiological Society of North America ) 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.

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