FDA approves Heart Mate II – Blood Pump for the Heart for Patients With Advanced Heart Problems
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Medical QuackPosted
Wed 27 Jan 2010 11:46pm
A new smaller version of the Heart Mate has been approved by the FDA. I had a related post back in 2008 about how the device from Thoratec was responsible for extending the life of a man who needed both kidney and heart transplants. If you read through you can see where mechanical improvements were also made with the new model. The device
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First heart patients implanted with 3rd Generation mechanical heart pump - DuraHeart
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Medical QuackPosted
Tue 02 Jun 2009 10:47pm
The device helps the heart pump blood from the left ventricle to the aorta, increasing flow throughout the body. Previous research has shown the approach can help alleviate symptoms and improve survival. With a shortage of hearts available for transplant the device can help extend lives and earlier this year I posted about the clinical trials
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Heart Health for Women: To Have a Heart is To Suffer the Attack of the Heart
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Melissa G.Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:16pm1 Comment
Women and our hearts....it is an on going struggle to balance ourselves, our hearts and our world. We battle every day with keeping our emotions in check, taking care... and natural leaders are often described as "bitches without heart." Other women, those labeled as meek and non-offensive women cower in their cubes or desks, unable to assert
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A Heart is not a Heart: Do Women Need a Different Heart Rate Max Formula?
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Doug K.Posted
Sun 18 Jul 2010 5:14pm
. Haskell's job
was to collect research on maximum heart rate testing. All the experts
agreed that exercise was important following a cardiac event or if you
had heart disease...
Figuring out your maximum heart rate used to be simple: 220-AGE.
That's what I was taught in school. That's what most people, if you ask, will tell you.
Of course
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From my heart to your heart to hearts in need
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M.L. GallagherPosted
Sat 05 Dec 2009 12:00am
gifts from my heart. Gifts I've created with my loving hands, inspired by my thoughts of that special someone. Those gifts meant a lot to me. In the giving I shared a bit of me. A special spot in my heart. But, what does it mean to that special someone? If my gift is red and blue and their decor is green and yellow, will my heartfelt expression of my love
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