Girl Lives 118 Days without a Heart.

Posted on November 23, 2008. Filed under: Diseases, Society, Survival, health | Tags: , , , , , , , |

This is an inspiring story about a young girl’s desire to live. She can teach all of us a lesson..
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By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami [...]

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Green Tea Good For You Heart, How About Green Tea Coffee?

Posted on July 4, 2008. Filed under: Alternative, Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Society, Survival, Wellness, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you are a faithful coffee drinker, consider adding a green tea bag to your morning cup of joe! This is a great way to protect your heart while still drinking your coffee.
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Does Green Tea Help the Heart?

By ALICE PARK
The next time you’re offered a choice between Earl Grey and green tea, you might want [...]

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Erectile dysfunction predicts heart problems: study

Posted on May 31, 2008. Filed under: Drugs, Fitness, Home Health, Society, Survival, Wellness, environment, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Erectile dysfunction predicts heart problems: study

By Amy Norton

Problems with maintaining an erection may foretell heart trouble ahead for men with type 2 diabetes, two new studies show.
A number of past studies have found a connection between erectile dysfunction (ED) and heart disease. But the new findings, published in the Journal of the American College of [...]

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Pacemakers a Security Risk?

Posted on March 16, 2008. Filed under: Wellness, health | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Implantable Medical Devices May Expose Patients To Security, Privacy Risks
ScienceDaily (2008-03-17) — Implantable cardiac defibrillators that are equipped with wireless technology are vulnerable to having private medical information extracted — and even having the devices reprogrammed — without the patients’ knowledge. Not only does this pose a potential security risk, it could also endanger patients’ [...]

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Work Stress bad for your health and heart– may even kill you.

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Women's Health, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , |

By Michael KahnTue Jan 22
Work really can kill you, according to a study on Wednesday providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body’s internal systems.
The findings from a long-running study involving more than 10,000 British civil servants also suggest stress-induced biological changes may play [...]

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