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That's why it's such good news to hear that another type of mechanical pump, called a left ventricular assist device, may be a viable alternative. Instead of replacing the heart entirely, the lvad attaches to the organ's left main chamber, boosting its output. The pump is twice as likely as drugs to keep patients alive after one year, according to a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting...
...service to education, but this seems to me to be the least Harvard should expect from its applicants, even athletes recruited to play sports. In the meantime we have Jesse E. Lane’s brief achievements on the ice to salute: three games, one assist and four penalties...
...over women or that they are "overseers" of women. The verse goes on to say that the husband of an insubordinate wife should first admonish her, then leave her to sleep alone and finally beat her. Wife beating is so prevalent in the Muslim world that social workers who assist battered women in Egypt, for example, spend much of their time trying to convince victims that their husbands' violent acts are unacceptable...
...federally employed women (and wives and daughters of men in the military or federal work force) have limited access if any to abortion. Young women cannot receive help from anyone without parental consent through the passage of the Child Custody Protection Act. This act makes it illegal to assist a teenager to get an abortion without parental consent. Through this law, adult friends, counselors, ministers and even grandmothers who help a teen in this way may end up in federal prison...
...assist total] doesn’t surprise me,” Gates said. “I’m sure she’ll break that many times...