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August 2004

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WONDER pill cuts obesity and smoking Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK ... Latest results of a year-long study, issued at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich yesterday, show that 40 to 45 per cent of overweight and ...
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HEART attack risks universal, study finds London Free Press - London,Ontario,Canada Salim Yusuf of McMaster University said yesterday from Munich, Germany, where he presented the findings at a European Society of Cardiology conference.
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HEART study\'s breakthrough Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA ... and does happen to younger people, often as the result of congenital heart defects. ... More than likely, said Hess, it was a genetic defect in the heart muscle ...
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HEART study\'s breakthrough Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA ... a complication of coronary artery disease or high blood pressure, but it can and does happen to younger people, often as the result of congenital heart defects ...
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CAUSES of most heart attacks same worldwide, Canadian-led study ... Canada.com - Canada ... Dr. Salim Yusuf of McMaster University said Sunday from Munich, Germany, where he presented the findings at a European Society of Cardiology conference.
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Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA ... Dr. Charalambos Vlachopoulos of Athens Medical School told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology that eating 100 grams, or about 3.5 ounces ...
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DARK chocolate 'helps blood flow' ABC Online - Australia ... Charalambos Vlachopoulos of Athens Medical School told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology that eating 100 grams of dark chocolate...
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MEDICAL Minute KHQA - Quincy,IL,USA ... have a treatment, a shunt. One out of every 100 babies is born with a congenital heart defect. Thanks to modern medicine, these ...
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MINISTER Martin Receives Gold Medal from European Society of ... Politics.ie - Ireland ... Mr Micheál Martin TD, will this weekend become the first Irish person to receive the prestigious Gold Medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). ...
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HOSPITAL OK'd For Angioplasty Hartford Courant (subscription) - Hartford,CT,USA ... which involves threading a stent into the heart to prop open damaged arteries, is extremely safe, said Dr. Steven Horowitz, head of cardiology at Stamford ...
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SICK Kids' cardiac program launches Canada's first summer camp for ... CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada ... the first overnight camp in Canada for children with congenital heart conditions. ... now there has been no summer camp in Canada for children with heart disease. ...
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US Life Expectancy at All-Time High, But Infant Mortality ... TheMatureMarket.com - World ... accounted for most of the increase in infant mortality: congenital anomalies (birth ... of death, there were declines in mortality from heart disease (3 percent ...
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ALWAYS in their hearts Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA ... Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to determine if Green had a genetic heart defect that could ... said about half of sudden deaths are caused by a congenital problem called ...
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PROSPECTS bright for artificial heart developed in Tucson Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA ... a good choice for patients with the many diseases and conditions that affect the entire heart, such as massive heart attack, congenital heart disease and holes ...
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METABOLIC syndrome increases risk of coronary death ScienceBlog.com - USA ... Compared to people with no metabolic syndrome factors, the risk of CHD death was twice as high for those with one to two factors and three-and-a-half times ...
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7 doctors plan to form new cardiology practice Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA Breaking off from the larger practice is a way to grow a new cardiology practice and offer more personalized care to patients, said Dr. Ed Harlamert, one of ...
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SUDDEN death spells 'shocking' news Times of India - India ... Agreed Dr KS Reddy, HOD, cardiology AIIMS, \"One-third of patients with a history of cardiac ailments, are lost to SD.\". Dr Rakesh ...
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EUROPEAN Society of Cardiology Congress 2004 - just a few days ... Medical News Today - UK The annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology kicks off this Saturday, 28 August 2004, in Munich, Germany. The ESC Congress ...
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ANGIOSCORE, Inc. Announces Initiation of US Clinical Trial for The ... PR Newswire (press release) - USA 25 /PRNewswire/ -- AngioScore(TM), Inc., a developer of novel tools for interventional cardiology, announced today the receipt of approval from the US Food & ...
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DON'T pit heart tests against each other Ventura County Star - Ventura county,CA,USA A report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology last week about stress testing for the detection of heart disease could mislead the ...
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ABUNDANT HEALTH CLINIC THRIVES ON VOLUNTEER HELP The Southern Illinoisan - IL,USA ... Violette, 54, has a congenital heart defect. He's had two open-heart surgeries and sports both a mechanical heart valve and a pacemaker. ...
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IN Your Town: Easton Area Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA The event will benefit Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on behalf of 18-month-old Alexa Carmella of Saylorsburg, who suffers from a congenital heart defect. ...
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NEW implant procedure closes holes in the heart Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription) - Fort Worth,TX,USA ... But in this case, the ministroke was a good thing: It warned Peterson, 38, that he had a very common but sometimes deadly congenital heart defect. ...
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ANTON worthy of Lore honor Delaware Capitol Review - Dover,DE,USA ... mom, Ann (Mrs. Michael Anton) explained that the malady is a congenital heart defect that causes her young athlete \"to tire very easily.\" Said Mrs. A, \"It ...
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ABUNDANT HEALTH CLINIC THRIVES ON VOLUNTEER HELP The Southern Illinoisan - IL,USA ... Violette, 54, has a congenital heart defect. ... the insurance won't cover his heart condition for ... to get medicine and advice on diet and managing their disease. ...
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MEDICAL People The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA Dr. Mark Harold Mines, interventional cardiologist, has joined Watson Clinic's cardiology department. Mines, who received his bachelor's ...
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SURGERIES don't dampen 9-year-old's spirit Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA THE MOTIVATION: Emily was born July 13, 1995, with a congenital heart defect called Truncus Arteriosus. Although heart defects aren ...
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WORLDWIDE evidence says better care will halt heart failure ... News-Medical.net - World ... In a paper published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, one of the most prestigious and influential medical journals in ...
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BLUE Shield patients caught in a quandary The Californian - Salinas,CA,USA ... Natividad Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Salinas, offers cardiology services but no open-heart surgery, angiogram or angioplasty, said Cherie Stock ...
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METABOLIC Syndrome Hikes Heart Risk Forbes - USA ... Compared to those with no metabolic syndrome factors, the risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) was twice as high for people with one to two factors ...
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SIGNIFICANT link between depression and the development of ... News-Medical.net - World A study of French power company employees has found a significant link between depression and the development of coronary heart disease (CHD).
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CARDIAC doctors leave Lenox Hill Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA Lenox Hill Hospital's moneymaking interventional cardiology team has packed up and moved to Columbia-Presbyterian. Lenox Hill Hospital's ...
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SPONTANEOUSLY Slovak Slovak Spectator - Bratislava,Slovakia ... the initiative started in 1988 to provide stipends and make arrangements for several Slovak physicians to take advanced courses in pediatric cardiology in the ...
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'FAILURE to thrive' Trinidad & Tobago Express - Trinidad and Tobago ... able to do something about his congenital heart condition is ... biggest challenges of the open heart surgery programme ... ICU for children renal disease and oncology ...
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VALIDATION of Volume and Mass Assessments for Human Fetal Heart ... Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine ... Address correspondence and reprint requests to David J. Sahn, MD, Clinical Care Center for Congenital Heart Disease, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 ...
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GIFT of life Lorain Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA ... Ohio and are used mostly to help children born with congenital heart defects or who have had their hearts injured by illness or disease lead easier lives ...
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TRAGIC death of teen football star Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK ... He was born with congenital rubella which meant he started life deaf, blind, mentally handicapped and with a heart defect. Doctors ...
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METROHEALTH selects cardio chief Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA MetroHealth Medical Center has appointed Dr. David Rosenbaum as the new director of its Division of Cardiology and director of the Heart & Vascular Center. ...
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METROHEALTH selects cardio chief Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA MetroHealth Medical Center has appointed Dr. David Rosenbaum as the new director of its Division of Cardiology and director of the Heart & Vascular Center. ...
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SUCCESSFUL heart op for baby from Vietnam The Malaysia Star - Malaysia ... couple Ngo Ha Nam, 34, and his wife, Pham Thi Hao, 32, when their baby son underwent a successful operation to correct a congenital heart defect at the ...
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Everett Herald - Everett,WA,USA Quinton Cardiology Systems Inc. said it will begin selling a new automated heart defibrillator under its Burdick brand name to medical ...
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AHA, ACC GUIDELINES RECOMMEND TREATING STEMI WITH ALDOSTERONE ... Pharmexec (press release) - USA New guidelines issued by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology suggest patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI ...
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A Critique of the VALUE Trial Results Medscape (subscription) - USA ... Around 46% of all patients had coronary heart disease (CHD), 20% cerebrovascular disease, 14% peripheral arterial disease, and 6% left ventricular hypertrophy
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STRESS Test May Miss Some Heart Disease WebMD - USA ... In the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers followed 1,195 people without known heart disease who underwent both ...
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NEXT Challenge NBA.com - USA ... It was fun.\". The purpose of the game was to raise money for cardiology research at the UConn Health Center. How important is it ...
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HEART Walking for health Lihue Garden Island - Lihue,HI,USA ... As Anna recalls, \"We had no idea of her congenital heart problems until October ... As for everyone who has the preconceived notion that heart disease affects only ...
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EXPERIMENTAL device could help avoid open-heart surgery for some ... Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA ... Balzer said that approximately one of 100 children is born with some type of congenital heart defect, with about 20 percent of those having the ventricular ...
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EXPERIMENTAL device could help avoid open-heart surgery for some ... Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA ... Balzer said that approximately one of 100 children is born with some type of congenital heart defect, with about 20 percent of those having the ventricular ...
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QUINTON Cardiology Systems to Sell Cardiac Science's Professional ... Yahoo News (press release) - USA ... 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quinton Cardiology Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: QUIN - News), a global leader in advanced cardiology products, and Cardiac Science, Inc. ...
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DOCTOR donates $1 M to KU heart center Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA ... in 2001. At the same time, the hospital acquired Mid-America Cardiology, another group of cardiovascular physicians. KU officials ...
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PRENATAL Surgery Saves Babies With Heart, Lung Abnormalities NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA British doctors are operating on unborn children with a congenital defect that affects the development of their heart and lungs. ...
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1985: Heart-lung transplant makes history BBC News - London,England,UK ... He had been waiting for a donor since May, when doctors told his parents he had a congenital heart disease which was progressively weakening his heart and lungs ...
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BLOOD donors sought for girl Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA ... But Kayla was born with a congenital heart disease that limits her ability to play like most active youngsters her age. \"She gets tired really easy. ...
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BRAVE Aiden faces heart surgery East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK ... Conal Austin, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, said: \"The combination of conditions that Aiden has is a severe form of a congenital heart defect, but is readily ...
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BIO-ENGINEERED Cardiovascular and Skin Repair and Replacement ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... in the US and worldwide markets for: tissue-engineered cardiovascular products including angiogenesis, bypass grafting, congenital heart defect repair, heart ...
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CARDIOMAG'S Heart-Health Scanner Receives International Marketing ... Yahoo News (press release) - USA ... All of these provide customer quality assurance and support the recently announced FDA approval to sell CMI's systems to the cardiology diagnostic market in ...
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RALLY group faces heat after child death Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India ... Instead of holding only a seminar, it took to the streets with children suffering from congenital heart disorders, leading to the death of 11-year-old Shoban ...
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BLOOD pressure screening should start by age 3 Medical News Today - UK ... preterm infants, had a low birth weight and who had a difficult or prolonged hospital stay, as well as in children who have congenital heart disease, who are ...
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BRICKBATS for AP Govt. over congenital heart treatment Webindia123.com - India Parents of children affected by congenital heart disease today put the Andhra Pradesh government in a spot by accusing it of not doing enough to correct the ...
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BRICKBATS for AP Govt. over congenital heart treatment Webindia123.com - India ... With only 40 paediatric cardiac centres in the country, the mortality rate amongst children born with congenital heart disease (CHD), in India is very high. ...
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TREATING inborn heart problems Business Times Singapore (subscription) - Singapore ... defects. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is commonly associated with cyanosis or blueness, heart murmurs and breathlessness. These ...
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INDIA woos Africans for medical cure BBC News - London,England,UK ... problem. For the past four years, the frail daughter of farm worker parents had been sick because of a congenital heart disease. She ...
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RARE heart defects led to girl's death Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA ... septal defect is a common congenital problem very easily curable by surgery or a device closure,\" Avasarala said. \"It usually presents itself as a heart murmur ...
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... Jacob was born with Tetralogy of Fallot with Absent Pulmonary Valve, a rare congenital heart defect which also damages the child's lungs and upper airway. ...
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BLOOD vessel plug - amplatzer ductal occluder, performs Well in ... News-Medical.net - World ... new study in the Aug. 4, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "With the widespread introduction of ... (2004 , Août-August ) PFIZER: Lipitor to remain market leader UK Comment Wire - UK ... where patients received only beta blockers or calcium channel blockers as antihypertensive agents) in the primary prevention of congenital heart disease. ...
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SUNBEAMS: HARRIET AINSWORTH Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA At Children's Hospital Oakland, she and Dan learned that Andrew had a congenital heart defect called pulmonary atresia: he was missing a valve. ...
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PREGNANCY after heart repair may be harmful Heart Center Online - USA Aug 02 (Reuters Health) - Women who have had an operation in infancy to correct a congenital heart defect can have a successful pregnancy, but it carries a ...
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PRUNE Belly Syndrome News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA ... experimentally for cleft lip-palate repair, placement of pacemaker leads for congenital heart block and repair of heart valves in congenital heart disease. ...
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YOUR turn to show mercy, doctor tells Iraqi captors News Today - India ... One may recall that some 20 children suffering from a complex congenital heart defect were operated upon at Dr KM Cherian's Heart Foundation, Chennai, in March ...
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PREGNANCY After Heart Repair May Be Harmful Yahoo News - USA NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have had an operation in infancy to correct a congenital heart defect can have a successful pregnancy, but it carries a ...
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KANU signs 3-year contract with West Brom Times of India - India ... He joined Inter Milan in 1996, although he was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect soon after. Kanu underwent open-heart surgery ...
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YOUNG golfers will lend a hand at fund-raiser San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA ... Born with a congenital heart defect, MacKinzie started playing golf at age 5 on the advice of her cardiologist. Known to many in ...
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PREGNANCY Risky for Women with Heart Defect Reuters - USA NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with a congenital heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot can have successful pregnancies, but overall they have an increased ...
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PAKISTANI infant stable, operation soon PakTribune.com - Pakistan ... of Narayana Hrudayalaya, which treated Lahore's baby Noor Fatima last year, said infant Mohammad Ahmed was suffering from a congenital heart defect but his ...
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TOURNAMENT is baseball gesture for the heart Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA ... November 1998. A student had collapsed, and the school nurse, who knew that the student had a congenital heart defect, called 911. ...
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BOY bullied to death, lawsuit says Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA ... There's no question that Alec died because of the bullying, because he had a congenital heart defect. He was frightened and that ...
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GENETIC medicine new cancer killer Xinhua - China ... defect and others relate to more complex aetiologies, or causes, involving several genes and their interactions. Understanding the causes of congenital heart ...
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AFGHAN boy with heart defect arrives in Canada for treatment Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada ... The boy, who has a congenital heart disease, was given a month ... determined Djamshid Djan has patent ductus arteriosus, a congenital defect that prevents blood ...
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