Mom survives heart attack while pregnant
The Naperville Sun Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:05 AM PDT
Surviving a massive heart attack while 37 weeks pregnant is as harrowing as life gets. But, for Brooke Bergeron, 38, to then be told that her chance for sudden cardiac death is 7 percent per year, meaning in 10 years it would be 70 percent, left her "blown away." But because of her age and medical situation, Bergeron was the perfect candidate for a new device that would decrease her odds to less ... |
Cost burden of chronic illness in Asia growing
AsiaOne Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:01 AM PDT
(Reuters) - Chronic illnesses like heart disease, cancer and depression affect Asians as much as those in Western countries and governments must draft plans to cope with long-term costs, health experts said on Monday. |
Chocolate is good for you... but read the small print
Yorkshire Post Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:53 AM PDT
WITH Easter just around the corner chocolate lovers can rejoice after new research suggests eating a small amount can be good for you, cutting the risk of heart attacks and st |
Medical Center to embark on $800k emergency room remodel
Telluride Daily Planet Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:52 AM PDT
It was a scarce few weeks ago that Dr. Diana Koelliker was treating a man who was having a heart attack. As he clutched his chest in the ER wing of the Telluride Medical Center, a patient on the other side of a cloth curtain was in screaming pain. |
FDA wants nutrition facts front and center
The Florence Times-Daily Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:46 AM PDT
By Michelle Rupe Eubanks, Staff Writer There was a time when physicians believed some diseases could only be found in adults - heart disease, for instance, or high blood pressure or cholesterol. |
Simulation to aid SU nursing school
The Daily Times Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:36 AM PDT
SALISBURY -- Her heart beats, she breathes harder and her pupils dilate. A professor in a white coat presses a button and she goes into cardiac arrest. |
John Bevans "Punkey" Foard III
Baltimore Sun Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:36 AM PDT
Co-founder of Valley View Farms in Cockeysville who introduced the store's famous Christmas shop more than four decades ago John Bevans "Punkey" Foard III, the co-founder of Valley View Farms who later introduced Christmas decorations and water gardens to the business, died March 21 of a heart attack at St. Clair Medical Center in Port-of-Spain Trinidad and Tobago. He was 75. |
After Olympic tragedy, figure skater Joannie Rochette comes to Tampa with Stars on Ice
St. Petersburg Times Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:32 AM PDT
The Olympics are as much about inspirational stories as they are about sports. The winter games in Vancouver were no exception. Two days before figure skater Joannie Rochette's short program, her mother, Therese Rochette, died of a heart attack. The tragedy occurred just hours after Rochette's parents had arrived to watch their daughter perform. The Montreal native went forward with her routine ... |
Maplewood officer treated for heart attack after service
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:26 AM PDT
A Maplewood police sergeant returning from Tuesday's burial of fallen St. Louis Officer David Haynes apparently suffered a heart attack before his patrol car ran off northbound Interstate 55 near Reavis Barracks Road shortly after 2 p.m., officials said. |
The Breakdown: Spring Break 2010 - Indy here we come!
Summit Daily News Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:20 AM PDT
With all the different destinations one could choose for a spring break trip, the heart of the Midwest normally doesn't register too high up on the list. Most people opt for beaches and margaritas, not corn fields and boilermakers. But for four college hoops teams, the reward for a winter's worth of skill drills and suicides, tape watching and scouting reports, is a trip to Hoosier Country ... |
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