Cases: A Heart That Needed Fixing, a Mind That Said No
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A doctor knew that operating would bring about a cure of a patientÂs condition, but he was convinced of both her insanity and her utterly lucid desire to avoid surgery.
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They regularly visit doctors' offices complaining of baffling combinations of symptoms for which no medical cause can be found: chest pain one month, gynecologic problems the next, followed by headaches or crushing fatigue. These patients, Jensen and other experts say, are much more focused on......
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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The Food and Drug Administration of the US found itself in the midst of a rather unpleasant controversy. Recently the chief of Cleveland Clinic Foundationâs department of cardiovascular medicine blamed this
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I knew this was going to be heavy when I saw the title, and it sure was. Heart disease is serious, but you can live with it, as I've found out. I had bypass surgery in 2002, and I'm still here. You can also quit smoking, it's easy when you have motivation.   Om, when you're feeling better let's go for a walk.  Dave
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Thousands of patients with failing hearts must decide whether to heed a warning from Medtronic and replace a defibrillator in their chest that has a potentially faulty wire.
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It turns out the common practice of using stents to open the heart may not be right for some patients.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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Scientists have made two significant advances in developing a stem-cell patch to repair the damage caused to the heart after an attack.
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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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Since then, the design has changed, but the goal remains the same -- to take the place of a failing heart, to pump blood through the body, and to keep someone alive.
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Jennifer Sutton's heart almost killed her. On Tuesday she got her first look at the culprit. Three months after the defective organ was cut from her body, the 23-year-old transplant patient came to contemplate a mass of pink and yellow tissue suspended in a transparent container at a medical museum in London.
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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The auto-parts company needs to figure out how to fix itself.
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.