Justice has second surgery on artery
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After suffering heart pains over the weekend, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was hospitalized for a "routine procedure" to keep an artery open, the court said.
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Pope John Paul spent a second  night in hospital after emergency treatment for breathing  problems and the Vatican moved to assuage fears for the  84-year-old Pontiff.
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N on Friday said two  small clinical trials showed heart bypass surgery patients  taking Bextra, an anti-inflammatory in the same class as the  recently withdrawn drug Vioxx, had an increased risk of stroke  and heart attack.
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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An emergency angioplasty operation involves inflating a balloon inside a heart attack patient&#39;s blocked artery, opening it up quickly and restoring blood flow.
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Patients with heart disease are being offered a  treatment with a difference - vibrating trousers.
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The heart operation that former President Clinton is to undergo restores blood flow around blockages that prevent coronary arteries from nourishing the heart.
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Former President Bill Clintonâs quadruple bypass surgery two weeks ago sent many middle-aged men rushing to have their hearts checked.
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Arts & entertainment: Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney had a heart operation last September to open blocked arteries
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NEW YORK  - The wrist is a better access  spot than the groin for performing angioplasty in very elderly  patients with heart disease, new research shows.
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HealthDayNews -- Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80 and the second-oldest man to preside over the nation&#39;s highest court, is undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, officials announced Monday.
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At about 10 am Tuesday, the heart of a 2-month-old boy began beating inside the chest of Abigail Patrick, 4 months, during the transplant surgery at Vanderbilt University Children&#39;s Hospital.
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Bill Clinton is an excellent candidate to make a full, quick recovery from coronary bypass surgery, a cardiologist said Friday. The former president is scheduled to undergo surgery as early as Saturday.
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Former President Bill Clinton&#39;s impending coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the most common heart operation performed in the United States, with more than half a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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People 65 years of age or older  may think twice about having weight loss surgery, according to  a surgeon who performs this operation and has studied the  outcome.