North Korea shows footage of wailing mourners on day of Kim Jong Il’s funeral
Washington Post Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST
SEOUL, South Korea â€" North Korea has aired footage showing a stream of wailing people paying their final respects to late leader Kim Jong Il. The country’s state TV broadcast the footage on Wednesday before a state funeral for Kim is scheduled to take place. Kim died of a heart attack on Dec. 17. The footage showed uniformed soldiers and citizens clad in black suits or Korean traditional dress ... |
Honey's Hearts a success at helping others
Bromsgrove Standard Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:43 AM PST
THE HONEY'S Hearts campaign launched by Bromsgrove mum Stacey Bisson after her daughter Honey was operated on after just 13 days, following her birth with a congenital heart defect, has raised £915 for Birmingham Children's Hospital. |
Prince Philip leaves hospital after heart operation
Guardian Unlimited Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:31 AM PST
Buckingham Palace says no decisions have been made about his engagements in the Queen's diamond jubilee year Prince Philip has been released from hospital four days after undergoing an emergency heart operation, but questions remain over when â€" and whether â€" he will be able to resume his official engagements. The 90-year-old Duke of Edinburgh waved to reporters and camera crews as he was driven ... |
Columnist Sue Carroll dies of cancer
Guardian Unlimited Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:30 AM PST
Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace leads tributes to writer, 58, who had cancer of the pancreas Tributes have been paid to Daily Mirror columnist and The Alan Titchmarsh Show pundit Sue Carroll, who has died aged 58. Mirror editor Richard Wallace called her "part of the heart and soul" of the tabloid, while associated editor Kevin Maguire said via Twitter that she was "the queen of columnists ... |
MRI Scans Better For Suspected Heart Disease Patients
Medical News Today Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:30 AM PST
In recent years, imaging techniques such as the most commonly used single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), have gradually replaced exercise treadmill tests for diagnosing heart disease. Now a five-year trial of over 750 heart disease patients conducted by the University of Leeds in the UK suggests that a more modern scanning method based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is better ... |
Joint Commission Awards Advanced Certification in Heart Failure to Abington Memorial Hospital
PRWeb Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST
Abington Memorial Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for its Comprehensive Heart Failure Program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. (PRWeb December 28, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/12/prweb9065652.htm |
Troponin I level test may help rule-out diagnosis of heart attack
News-Medical-Net Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:04 AM PST
For patients admitted to an emergency department with chest pain, use of a contemporary or highly sensitive test for levels of troponin I (a protein in muscle tissue) may help rule-out a diagnosis of heart attack, while changes in the measured levels of this biomarker at 3 hours after admission may be useful to confirm a diagnosis of heart attack, according to a study in the December 28 issue of ... |
Sensitive test rules out heart attacks
Press TV Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:59 AM PST
Scientists say a new sensitive version of troponin blood test may improve and significantly speed up ruling out or diagnosis of heart attacks. |
Freeman Hospital Children's Heart Unit gets £22,000
icNewcastle - Evening Chronicle Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:33 AM PST
HUNDREDS of employees from Procter & Gamble have pledged a donation of £22,000 to the Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital, a cause close to the hearts of hundreds of families in the North East. |
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