first charity to benefit
Dundee-MAD Sun, 01 May 2011 13:56 PM PDT
This weekend sees the second of our Healthier Lifestyles initiatives, with the British Heart Foundation. We decided to get involved with BHF after one of our fans, Brian Ferme, had a heart attack and collapsed outside the ground after the Raith Rovers game. |
Trainer Ritvo in Derby 3 years after transplant
Washington Examiner Sun, 01 May 2011 13:08 PM PDT
WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. Trainer Kathy Ritvo almost didn't make it to the Kentucky Derby with Mucho Macho Man. Ritvo spent eight years dealing with a degenerative heart disease before receiving a transplant in November 2008. The procedure saved her life and gave her a new perspective. She says she no longer sweats the small stuff and instead tries to enjoy each day as it ... |
Helicopter rescues stricken fisherman
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News Sun, 01 May 2011 12:57 PM PDT
A military helicopter out of 14 Wing Greenwood in southwestern Nova Scotia was called in Sunday morning to rescue a man suspected of having a heart attack while fishing in woods near Halifax. |
Far From Normal
Gay City News Sun, 01 May 2011 12:22 PM PDT
Anyone lucky enough to have seen the original production of “The Normal Heart,†Larry Kramer’s fiery polemic about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, knows there’s nothing normal about it. |
Weird Science's heart loves booze, hates mornings
Ars Technica Sun, 01 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT
Your heart is not a morning organ: Circadian rhythms, the changes your body undergoes based on time of day, influence a huge number of your body's normal processes. It looks like they might influence abnormal processes too. Researchers tracked myocardial infarctions based on time of day, and measured their severity based on standard tests of enzyme levels. It turns out the heart hates the ... |
Women urged to love their heart also
New Kerala Sun, 01 May 2011 12:06 PM PDT
Sydney, May 1 : Women have been urged to think of their hearts also, with a new research showing that more women die from heart attacks than men in Australia, and yet many more who are unaware they are at risk. |
Family to share woman's tragic story of bulimia, death
Baltimore Sun Sun, 01 May 2011 11:58 AM PDT
Jenna Miller died at age 26 of cardiac arrest Jenna Miller agreed to marry her longtime boyfriend, Benjamin Woods, just months after he rescued her from near-certain death by performing CPR when she experienced a sudden cardiac arrest. But on Jan. 8, two weeks after their first wedding anniversary, her heart gave out again, and she died as Woods held her in his arms. |
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