11Mar/13

Footballer Fabrice Muamba survived cardiac arrest but, a new book argues, too … – Daily News & Analysis


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Footballer Fabrice Muamba survived cardiac arrest but, a new book argues, too
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Later, when ventilators were developed that could temporarily maintain a heartbeat after irreversible brain damage, the concept of brain death was developed. Now, though, Parnia believes such definitions are outdated and we can no longer talk about the

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11Mar/13

Largely Dismissed Heart Failure Drug May Help Solve Costly Problem for … – Science Daily (press release)

Largely Dismissed Heart Failure Drug May Help Solve Costly Problem for
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11, 2013 — The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that heart failure patients will be admitted to the hospital
A Cheap, Old Heart Drug May Help Elderly Heart Failure PatientsU.S. News & World Report

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11Mar/13

Heart diseases not a modern ill, mummies show – Times of India


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Heart diseases not a modern ill, mummies show
Times of India
Professor Randall Thompson, of Saint Luke’s Heart Institute in Kansas City, said, “The fact that we found similar levels of atherosclerosis in all of the different cultures we studied, all of whom had very different lifestyles and diets, suggests that
Heart attacks and strokes may be as old as 4000 yearsZee News
Artery blocks not so modernCalcutta Telegraph

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11Mar/13

Antibiotics; If we don't stop handing out antibiotics like sweets, even a cut … – Daily Mail


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Antibiotics; If we don’t stop handing out antibiotics like sweets, even a cut
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British doctors say there are two particularly pressing dangers: the lung disease tuberculosis and the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea. Last month This phenomenon was first observed in a Swedish patient of Indian origin in 2008. He was

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