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With the device in place, the Vice President's prognosis is good. Patients with an irregular heartbeat who get these mechanical aids cut in half their chance of dying from a cardiac event...
...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining...
...McCall, it should be said, is a true believer who teaches at the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Center in Boston. But more mainstream physicians seem ready to agree. At New York Presbyterian, all heart patients undergoing cardiac procedures are offered massages and yoga during recovery. At Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, cardiac doctors suggest that their patients enroll in the hospital's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, which offers yoga, among other therapies. "While we haven't tested yoga as a stand-alone therapy," says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the center's director, patients opting for yoga do show...
...With the device in place, the Vice President's prognosis is good. Patients with an irregular heartbeat who get these mechanical aids cut in half their chance of dying from a cardiac event...
...Cheney said the trouble turned up when he wore a halter cardiac monitor that detected "some minor periods, very short periods, one to two seconds each, of rapid heart rate," he said. "I can't feel anything when it happens, I am asymptotic, nothing shows externally with respect to that...