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November 2006

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  bt   The proof is in the pulse! ( Destination Santé) Our heart rate should be as closely monitored as our blood pressure. That is the opinion of a French team that monitored 4,320 men over the course of 5 years. Their work was presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago. After becoming interested in the impact of resting heart rate on the risk of sudden death, Xavier Jouven and his team at the Georges Pompidou European hospital in Paris, studied how these two parameters developed over time…
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  bt   Scientists find master stem cell in mice Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia ... to regenerate tissues to repair congenital heart defects in children and damage caused by heart attacks in ... to repair tissue damaged by disease or injury. ... See all stories on this topic
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  bt   Discovery of cardiac stem cells may advance regenerative heart ... EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA ... may also have important implications for regenerative medicine aimed at cardiac repair in patients with congenital or acquired heart disease, according to the ...
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  bt   Heart disease treatment for poor kids Hindu - Chennai,India ... "Between three to eight children per 1,000 live births were born with congenital heart defects and two-thirds of them die before the first year," said Chief ...
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  bt   Researchers isolate a master heart cell Boston Globe - United States ... body, the heart has a very limited ability to repair itself, so doctors have found it difficult to reverse the cardiac effects of disease or congenital defects ...
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  bt   AHA: Tissue Heart Valves Do Not Impair Survival in Young Adults MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA ... within the subgroup of young adults with coronary artery disease, no prosthesis ... they typically have right-side valve replacements for congenital heart problems ...
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  bt   A matter of the heart OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA ... since the day she was born with a rare congenital heart defect. ... birth she had undergone multiple surgeries for a complex heart disease, atrioventricular septal ...
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  bt   Women with heart defects lack info on pregnancy safety Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada ... Adrienne Kovacs, a psychologist in the cardiology division at the University Health Network in Toronto, shows that women with congenital heart disease are not ...
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  bt   Amniotic Stem Cells Offer Hope Against Congenital Heart Defects Forbes - NY,USA ... But the fact remains that congenital heart disease is responsible for more deaths in the first year of life than any other birth defects, the National ...
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  bt   More than 1,000 babies born with congenital defects in Krasnoyarsk ... Siberian News Online - Krasnoyarsk,Russia Yelizaryeva told that congenital heart disease are the most widely spread: up to 32% of all the diseases. They are followed by defects ...
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  bt   Million Dollar Gift Will Support Heart Center at Children's ... Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA ... of-the-art therapeutics for both congenital and acquired pediatric cardiovascular disease, all delivered ... can close a hole in a child's heart through a ...
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  bt   Save A Child's Heart programme launched Hindu - Chennai,India ... cardiac and cardio-thoracic treatment for underprivileged children born with heart disease. ... every 1,000 live births are born with congenital heart defects, and ...
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  bt   Heart valves grown in womb Courier Mail - Australia ... concept to the treatment of congenital heart defects," said ... will revolutionise how people with valve disease will be ... have surgery to replace heart parts each ...
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  bt   The mother must leave Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... Haim Cuyugan has a congenital heart defect which requires annual examinations in the hospital. If he is deported to the Philippines ...
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  bt   Smaller equipment will help sick kids Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada ... In the other case, a 10-year-old boy's heart stopped a week after he had open heart surgery in Edmonton to repair a congenital heart defect. ...
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  bt   Baby born with heart outside chest in Miami remains stable WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA ... to reposition his heart inside his skin. But doctors say the child should have a normal childhood despite being born with the extremely rare congenital defect. ...
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  bt   United in health, family gives thanks Houston Chronicle - United States ... two had never spent more than a few days apart until last week when doctors at Texas Children's Hospital operated on Jada to fix her congenital heart defect. ...
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  bt   Children's foundation to hold first big benefit Palm Beach Post - FL, United States ... the first large-scale fund-raiser for the Spencer Crawford Children's Foundation, named for her son, who was born in 2000 with a congenital heart defect. ...
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  bt   Community offers helping hand to family of ill child Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA One of my twin grandsons was born with a congenital heart defect. He subsequently had heart surgery and was hospitalized for 11 weeks. ...
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  bt     bt   Roche Diagnostics Announces Nationwide Recall on Medical Device Used to Determine Blood Clotting Time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- October 19, 2006 -- Roche Diagnostics is notifying users of an important recall of all CoaguChek® PT test strips currently in the market, due to a potential for a test strip defect that may cause falsely elevated test results. The company has identified the root cause and is instituting corrective action with highest priority. To date, the company has confirmed one incident and its internal investigation suggests that a small percentage of strips may be affected. To date, no deaths, illnesses or injuries have been reported due to this issue.
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  bt   US doctors come to Kyiv to heal Ukrainian hearts Kyiv Post - Kyiv,Ukraine ... the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, discussed techniques related to cardiacsurgery, the treatment of congenital heart disease in newborns ...
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  bt   Accused ‘created’ 31 fake licences Sunshine Coast Daily - Queensland,Australia Matthew Paul West claims he suffers a congenital heart defect and has a life expectancy of two to five years without “a particular drug”. ...
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  bt   Student seeks volunteers for Save A Child’s Heart Canadian Jewish News - North York,ON,Canada ... Cohen in 1996, with a mission to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from developing countries who suffer from congenital heart disease. ...
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  bt   Surgery gives teen athlete second chance for 'normal life' Weymouth News - Weymouth,MA,USA ... In September, the Kirsches learned that a congenital heart defect being monitored by Casey's cardiologist had caused a large distention, or aneurysm, in a ...
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  bt   My one hour heart surgery Daily Mail - UK - UK ... Every year, eight out of every 1,000 babies are born with a congenital heart defect, like me. When I was eight, I had open-heart ...
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  bt   Two babies need help for urgent surgeries New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia She has a congenital heart disease and her parents, who are from Kota Kuala Muda in Kedah, cannot afford to pay for the operation at the Gleneagles Medical ...
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  bt   Child's Heart Defect Fixed without Surgery HealthNewsDigest.com - New York,NY,USA ... The new procedure repairs the defect more safely through a tiny opening. ... "By adding non-surgical treatments for congenital heart defects, we are providing. ...
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  bt   Babies with heart defects now have chance of survival The News - International - Pakistan ... on Sunday. He cautioned the congenital heart disease remains a major cause of medical complications and mortality. Explaining open ...
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  bt   Adults who survive childhood diseases still seeing pediatricians The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA ... Gewitz, a pediatric cardiologist, said the number of adults with congenital heart disease has just about eclipsed the number of children with it. ...
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