FDA to study safety of popular heart stents; patients put on anti-clotting drugs (Boston Herald)
Millions of chest pain and heart attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine were placed in their arteries to keep them from squeezing shut again.
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Zambia’s Chiluba in Johannesburg heart hospital (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Zambia’s graft-tainted former president Frederick Chiluba is in intensive care at a Johannesburg hospital for a heart ailment and is in no position to face trial, his spokesman has said.
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Tiny heater inside your lungs could end asthma inhalers (Daily Mail)
A tiny heater that warms the lungs and airways is being used to treat asthma. The device, which is inserted through the nose or mouth, gives ten-second blasts of mild heat to the muscles to stop them contracting
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Stem cell symposium confirms realistic hope for the condemned heart patient (Business Day)
World experts agree that seriously ill heart patients, once considered beyond treatment, can avail themselves of adult stem cell therapy that offers for the vast majority a return to better health and a more active life.
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Pinochet Making Progress, Recovering After Weekend Heart Attack (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has made enough progress since suffering a weekend heart attack to be able to get out of bed today, a hospital spokesman said.
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Asthma treatment focus at Geisinger (Times Leader)
PLAINS TWP. Contrary to a pop-culture image, asthma sufferers generally should not stuff the stubby end of the typical inhaler into their mouths and spray.
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Heart treatment’s loss setting back research (Los Angeles Daily News)
Pfizer Inc.’s new experimental heart drug is dead, but the dual approach the company was testing - boosting good cholesterol while lowering the bad - is very much alive, specialists said Monday.
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Studies uncover possible safety risk in popular heart-attack treatment (Seattle Times)
Millions of chest-pain and heart-attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine…
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Students Fight Asthma One Home At A Time (Queens Chronicle)
(Jami Maday) Astoria resident Nadine Clark, right, answers questions about her granddaughters asthma history posed by nursing student Lizett La Croix Serrette.
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Modern drugs cut heart attack risk within 90 days (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Patients taking modern blood pressure and cholesterol drugs significantly reduce their risk of suffering a heart attack within 90 days of starting treatment, researchers said on Monday.
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Ex-dictator Pinochet suffers heart attack, receives last rites (USA Today)
Gen. Augusto Pinochet suffered an acute heart attack Sunday and doctors, using a catheter to clear his arteries, “virtually rescued him from death,” his son said.
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Gen. Pinochet suffers heart attack (AP via Yahoo! News)
Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized early Sunday after suffering a heart attack and is in serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said. His son said he underwent an undisclosed procedure that “rescued” him from death.
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Gen. Pinochet Suffers Heart Attack (ABC News)
Former Dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Serious Condition After Suffering Heart Attack
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Pinochet suffers heart attack (MSNBC)
Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized early Sunday after suffering a heart attack and is in serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said.
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Flowers in Alps, bears can’t sleep as winter waits (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Flowers are blooming on the slopes of Alpine ski resorts and bears are having trouble hibernating in Siberia amid a late start to winter that may be a portent of global warming.
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Pfizer halts research on experimental heart drug (International Herald Tribune)
Many cardiologists had viewed the medication as a potentially major advance in efforts to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
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Students Fight Asthma One Home At A Time (Queens Chronicle)
(Jami Maday) Astoria resident Nadine Clark, right, answers questions about her granddaughters asthma history posed by nursing student Lizett La Croix Serrette.
Source: www.zwire.com

Asthma prevalence study gets under way next week (The Jamaica Observer)
A study to determine the prevalence of asthma and allergies in Jamaica among children and adults will be undertaken by the University of the West Indies School of Nursing, Mona, with the help of a grant of $10.5 million from the National Health Fund (NHF).
Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

Pfizer drops trials on heart drug / End of research on cholesterol medicine a big blow for firm (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pfizer announced Saturday night that it had discontinued research on its most important experimental drug, a treatment for heart disease. The decision is a stunning development that will seriously damage the prospects of the world’s biggest drug company…
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Girl needs help for heart surgery (INQ7.net)
DAVAO CITY When she was only 9 months old, Addie Beatrix Velasco was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart disease known as Cor Triatriatum of the left atrium. She has been in and out of the hospital for treatment of primary complex.
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