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...certain what causes some individuals and not others to overproduce homocysteine. But the evidence points to a shortage of vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and folic acid, all of which work to convert the amino acid into a molecular form the body can use. The answer for people concerned about cardiac health would seem to be for them to keep their intake of the protective vitamins high. The Harvard Health Letter has recommended increasing consumption of a range of foods--including leafy green vegetables, beans, peas, grains and certain meats and dairy foods--to keep homocysteine in check. Many researchers agree...
...novel murder defense: that the victim was killed not by his client but by the harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...
...case was 10 years old. The protocols, though never implemented by the Cleveland Clinic, are used elsewhere and are supported by Dr. Hans Sollinger, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. A 1996 study of 500 hospitals found that about a third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard of brain dead. Hospitals make sure that the physician who officially declares death and the transplant team...
...quite what you need? Punch the button again. Other physicians--about 7,000 in 23 practice groups--also want your business. Some groups offer 24-hour hot lines and evening clinics for two-worker families. Some also trumpet their expertise in treating particular illnesses. "No. 1 in cardiac care," brags HealthSystem Minnesota--plus "96% early detection of breast cancer...above-average five-year prostate cancer survival rates." Some groups ask for $10 a month, in addition to the $70 payment each patient gets from his or her employer; others demand $20, still others $40 (no deductibles though). You pays your...
...been unable to work since a previous cardiac arrest...