Health News: [heart]

Review of stroke treatment could save lives EurekAlert! Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:13 AM PDT Doctors are underutilizing crucial medication to prevent deadly strokes in those with a common type of heart condition, new research says, leading to fresh calls for a review of current treatment strategies and more research into stroke prevention. c3PR Principal Mar Junge Wins 2011 Communitas Award for Community Service PRWeb Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:11 AM PDT AMCP Recognizes PR Agency Principal for Pro Bono Services to One Heart World-Wide and Sticks-2-Schools (PRWeb September 30, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8842182.htm Clinic to provide heart screenings for athletes The Columbian Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:10 AM PDT Vancouver Clinic to provide heart screenings for athletes Brave schoolgirl, 12, has tumour the size of a RUGBY BALL removed from her chest Daily Mail Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT Lucy Betts, 12, from Thurmaston, Leicester, could barely breath as the huge tumour crushed her left lung 'like a crisp packet' against her heart Press Release PharmiWeb Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:03 AM PDT JenaValve Technology GmbH , a German medical device company specializing in the development of transcatheter heart valve implantation systems, announced today that the Company has received CE mark approval for its transapical TAVI system of the second-generation. JenaValve Technology is First in Receiving CE Certification for a True Second-Generation Transapical TAVI System Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:50 AM PDT JenaValve Technology GmbH, a German medical device company specializing in the development of transcatheter heart valve implantation systems, announced today that the Company has received CE mark approval for its transapical TAVI system of the second-generation. Watch: Preventing Heart Attacks ABC News Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:43 AM PDT Dr. Robert Michler discusses risk factors and causes. First patient in Turkey with Total Artificial Heart attends TUYOD meeting News-Medical-Net Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:27 AM PDT In May 2011, Omer Bayrak made headlines when he became the first patient in Turkey to be discharged from the hospital using the Freedom® portable driver to power his SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Since returning home to wait for a matching donor heart, Mr. Bayrak has been enjoying his new-found celebrity as "the only man in Turkey who lives without a heart." Circles of life: Organ donations DeWitt-Bath Review Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:13 AM PDT Loading Photo Galleries ... Heart transplant recipient Kevin Pontz hugs daughters Abigail (left) and Emily on Thursday at the Donate Life Capitol Celebration in Lansing. His wife and their mother, Angelin, died suddenly two weeks ago and four people received her organs. UMMC transplant program revived Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:11 AM PDT JACKSON â€" When a 13-year-old boy recently got a new heart at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the hospital's prestige as a transplant center also found new life.

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