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...going in for the same procedure he had in March - a cardiac catheterization, for which doctors insert wires into a vein in his groin and thread them up into his heart. The wires are tipped with electrical sensors that give precise readings on the rhythm of the heart muscles "for the purpose of determining the vice president's risk of developing a persistent, abnormal heart rhythm," said Dr. Jonathan Samuel Reiner in a statement released by the White House...
...kitchen window - dove-colored and innocent, until you look again and see it is no dove, but a merlin, that is, a pigeon-hawk. Yesterday, not far from the post, we found a catbird lying dead on its side, unmarked by struggle or wound. Perhaps it died of cardiac infarction or some other internal disaster, but I suspect the merlin...
...Unlike her sister who hadn't really figured out what she wanted to do with her life, Sophie had worked as a cardiac technician at a local hospital for more than a year. She found the work rewarding. It probably also helped train her to react swiftly and with methodical detachment in a crisis...
...drugs like Prozac, and in the U.S., where concoctions of the herb, sold under such labels as Mood Support and Brighten Up, became flagships of the booming alternative- medicine industry. Before last year's warnings that St. John's wort could interfere with other medications--notably AIDS treatments, antibiotics, cardiac drugs and oral contraceptives--yearly sales had reached $310 million. Even today, some 1.5 million Americans take the extract regularly to treat their psychic pain...
Sometime in the next 10 weeks, surgeons will remove the heart from a dying cardiac patient and replace it with the device seen at right--the first fully implantable, entirely self-contained mechanical heart. The $75,000 pump is a technological tour de force. Fashioned of titanium and plastic, it is powered by a wallet-size battery pack that transmits energy to a coil under the skin. Patients should be able to walk, shower, even return to work--as long as they recharge every four hours. AbioMed hopes to install more if the experimental design works reliably and delivers good...