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How you can help heal a failing heart Daily Mail Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:17 PM PST Heart disease is Britain's biggest killer, taking the lives of 120,000 people every year. While many others survive, their lives are often blighted by depression, anxiety, ill health and a fear of dying young. Volunteers’ hearts drive heart month Nanaimo News Bulletin Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:16 PM PST Hundreds of Heart and Stroke Foundation volunteers are hitting the streets and knocking on doors this February to raise awareness and funds to fight heart disease. Heart disease, America's No. 1 killer, high in Ohio Zanesville Times Recorder Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:12 PM PST ZANESVILLE -- Muskingum County residents are more likely than other Ohioans to be diagnosed with heart disease or be rushed to the hospital for a heart problem. However, only five counties posted lower heart disease death rates, according to a report by the Ohio Department of Health. Update: Jamba Juice and CAHPERD Break Guinness World Record* for the 'Most People Jumping/Skipping Rope at the Same ... PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:51 PM PST Nasdaq: JMBA) -- Jamba Juice Company and The California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance broke the Guinness World Record* today for the "Most People Jumping/Skipping Rope at the Same Time" during the 2010 CAHPERD Jamba Jump Day⢠event.  Kicking off American Heart Month this morning at 9am, CAHPERD and Jamba Juice led 88,000 Californians in schools, nonprofit ... Exchange Club hosting benefit dinner for Larry Williams The Times-Reporter Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:47 PM PST The Dover Exchange Club will hold a carryout chicken barbecue dinner to help defray medical expenses for Larry Williams, a club member for more than 25 years who is battling congestive heart failure. Elderly couple died from a fall, heart attack Middletown Journal Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:36 PM PST Melvin and Dorothy Rudd died within minutes of each other on the back deck of their Franklin Twp. home Saturday, according to Warren County officials. Dorothy died of blunt force trauma to the head from a fall and Melvin died of a heart attack. “It is clear she fell and he went out to help her,” the investigator said. Mapping Emergencies in Jackson County, W.Va. WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:28 PM PST If something catastrophic happens to you like a heart attack or stroke, you want emergency crews to arrive quickly. But if they can't find where you live that could be a deadly problem, and it has some folks in Jackson County worried. Local kids jump at chance to help set world record Ventura County Star Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:08 PM PST Hundreds of children spread out Monday around McAuliffe School in Oxnard, jumping and skipping to try to set a world record and raise awareness about heart health.They joined about 80,000 people statewide who started jumping at 9 a.m., trying to break the Guinness World Record for the most people jumping rope at the same time, said McAuliffe Learning Director Manny Koch. Monday was the first day ... Southeast Alabama Medical Center Puts Everyone On Red A... WDHN Dothan Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:00 PM PST Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States making February American Heart Month. Monday afternoon the Southeast Alabama Medical Center put everyone on red alert as they honored American Heart Month. New study finds taking herbal supplements may do more harm than good WALB Albany Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58 PM PST Going "natural" may not mean you're making a healthy choice.  A new study finds taking herbal supplements may do more harm than good for patients with common heart conditions, like high blood pressure.

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