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Study supports fixing heart valves without surgery
Houma Courier
AP Photo/Edwards Lifesciences/No Sales An image provided by Edwards Lifesciences shows a graphic of the Edwards SAPIEN valve. A long-awaited study suggests that many people with bad aortic valves can have them replaced through a tube into an artery ...
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Alzheimer's Studies Show Genetic Links
New York Times
By GINA KOLATA The two largest studies of Alzheimer's disease have led to the discovery of no fewer than five genes that provide intriguing new clues to why it strikes and how it progresses. Reporter Gina Kolata is answering your questions about ...
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Abbott absorbable stent shows good results
Reuters
By Ransdell Pierson and Debra Sherman NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc's experimental Absorb heart stent, designed to dissolve and thereby restore the blood vessel's natural flexibility, has proven safe and effective a year after being ...
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Most Breast Tumors Have Unique Genetic 'Fingerprint,' Study Finds
BusinessWeek
SATURDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who sequenced the entire genomes of tumors from 50 breast cancer patients identified more than 1700 mutations, most of which were unique to individual patients. The findings help explain why it's ...
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White House appeals health care decision to federal court in Atlanta
CNN International
By William Mears, CNN Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration has formally asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to rule in favor of the sweeping health care reform law. The Justice Department filed its brief Sunday with the US Court of Appeals ...
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Increased heart attack risk persists for Katrina survivors
msnbc.com
By Bill Berkrot NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans residents were found to have three times the rate of heart attacks four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina than before the storm and levee break that flooded the city, according to a study ...
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Egyptian mummies prove ancient people also had hardening of the arteries
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times CT scans of Egyptian mummies show that many of them suffered from hardening of their arteries, researchers said Sunday. Cardiologists have generally believed that atherosclerosis is a byproduct of the modern ...
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Salmonella fear triggers Jennie-O recall
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A dozen people have become sick in several states, prompting the Minnesota-based company to issue a nationwide recall of its turkey burgers. By ALLIE SHAH, Star Tribune Jennie-O Turkey Store of Willmar, Minn., has recalled about 55000 pounds of frozen ...
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April Autism Awareness Month- Early Detection & Intervention
Brookfield Elm Grove Now (blog)
By Alexandra Solano April is Autism Awareness Month at Milwaukee Center for Longevity Medicine. CDC's most recent report from the 11 sites that make up the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network identified 2757 children with ...
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Relay for Life set Friday at McLeod Center
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
CEDAR FALLS --- The University of Northern Iowa will host an American Cancer Society Relay for Life from 6 pm Friday to 6 am Saturday in the McLeod Center. The theme this year is Imagine a Whole New World Without Cancer. More than 85 teams signed up to ...
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Study: Restless legs may be a sign of heart risks
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The nighttime twitching of restless legs syndrome may be more than an annoyance: New research suggests that in some people, it could be a sign of hidden heart problems. People with very frequent leg movements during sleep were more ...
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County ranks low in health study
Niles Daily Star
Berrien County again ranks in the bottom third of the state in a national health study released this week. The study, completed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, looks at 2010 health data ...
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1.6m with HIV in region, L. America
Nation News
PANAMA CITY, Panama, CMC – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says there are about 1.6 million people in Latin American and the Caribbean carrying the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that can cause the deadly disease AIDS. ...
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'Pinwheels for Prevention' ceremony to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month
Tampabay.com
As part of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the city of Brooksville, in partnership with Devereux Kids, Department of Children and Families, Kids Central Inc. and PCA Florida, will host a "Pinwheels for Prevention" ceremony at 2 pm Friday at City Hall, ...
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