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...collies suffer from genetic eye trouble, and 10% eventually go blind. Dalmatians are often deaf. Cocker spaniels tend to have bad tempers. Great Danes have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such enormous heads that pups often have to be delivered by cesarean section. Newfoundlands can drop dead from cardiac arrests. Chinese Shar-Peis, the wrinkly dogs that don't seem to fit into their skin, have congenital skin disorders. And Irish setters, laments veterinarian Michael Fox, a vice president of the Humane Society of the U.S., "are so dumb they can't find their...
...Cardiac costs are responsible for more than$100 million per year worth of health carespending in the U.S., the largest single healthcare expense...
Angela learned a clever trick to get attention. She knew that if she pulled the cardiac sensors off her chest, alarms would ring and nurses would come running. By April, Angela was playing outside her ventilator for "sprints" of two to four hours several times a day, and once for as long as eight hours. Though she remained a little under the average weight for her age, so steady and secure was her progress that the medical team cut back its daily * discussion of her case to a weekly assessment and predicted that she would be going home by early...
...Neill, a Cambridge native famous for his maxim "All politics is local," died last Wednesday night of cardiac arrest in Boston...
...Neill died of cardiac arrest Wednesday night in Boston...