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...problem in question is cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular beating of the heart that can be deadly. Some cardiac arrhythmias bear the telltale signs of chaos. By delivering a series of precisely timed electrical pulses, four scientists at UCLA, the College of Wooster in Ohio and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland theorized that they might be able to tame unruly hearts...
...wondered, could this tragedy happen to a good, clean-living, smart kid like me? Did this prove the basic impotence of individuals to determine their own fate? What would befall me next--jury duty? Mistaken arrest? Cardiac arrest...
Doctors at Harvard Medical School, who have been following 22,000 male physicians as part of a 10-year health study, have made a stunning discovery about beta carotene. They found that men with a history of cardiac disease who were given beta carotene supplements of 50 mg every other day suffered half as many heart attacks, strokes and deaths as those popping placebo pills. No heart attacks occurred among those in this group who received aspirin along with the beta carotene capsules. The Harvard researchers have begun a trial in 45,000 postmenopausal women to see if a similar...
Using a relatively new drug, two Harvard physicians recently demonstrated that deep anesthesia for infants undergoing major surgery is safe, and lessens hormonal and metabolic responses to cardiac surgery stress...
...Fellow in Pediatrics Dr. Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand of Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia Dr. Paul R. Hickey of Boston Children's Hospital were able to show that he administration of high-dose sufentanil, an opioid anaesthetic, reduced post-operative complications and mortality among infants undergoing cardiac surgery...