American Heart Association News
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St. Jude Medical Inc.’s device designed to treat hypertension by searing nerves that contribute to the condition significantly reduced blood pressure within a month, a study found.
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Bill “Moose” Skowron, a first baseman who played on four New York Yankees world championship teams, died today at the age of 81, the team said.
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The boycott against talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has some unexpected beneficiaries: non-profits getting more ad time on his show.
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Women are often underrepresented in studies used to win U.S. approval for medical devices in contradiction of government requirements, a report today in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation showed.
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U.S. colleges and universities attracted $30.3 billion in charitable contributions last year, rebounding from a lag in donations that began with the 2008 recession.
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Resverlogix Corp. , a drugmaker with no approved medicines, plunged the most in nine years in Toronto trading after its lead experimental treatment missed a study goal and raised questions about liver safety.
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Two or three alcoholic drinks a day may prevent people, especially men, from having heart attacks or strokes after going through heart-bypass surgery , Italian researchers said.
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Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc. plummeted 45 percent after canceling a late-stage trial of an experimental treatment for heart disease because it didn’t work.
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Most people being treated for heart disease can safely have sex, according to research that also suggests the risk of sudden cardiac death may rise for men when the amorous activity occurs in an extramarital affair.
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Men who eat fatty foods may be harming their chances for fatherhood, researchers say.
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