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• Oklahoma Baby Thrives After New Esophagus Surgery

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 540
  Daniela Cruz is thriving after University of Oklahoma surgeons used a new surgical technique to repair her esophagus.  She was born with a congenital birth defect known as esophageal atresia.  Her upper esophagus failed to connect with her lower esophagus, but rather her airway or windpipe. Daniela was born on ...
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• Lemon Laws May Not Garb Recreational Vehicles

  
  Lili Design Studio — Authority: 108
  Although the outlay of gasoline continues to climb upwards, Americans quiescent be partial to driving recreational vehicles. They are grown-up and ungainly, and manoeuvre exhausted gas mileage, but the convenience of driving a conduit that also contains some of the comforts of home is appealing, principally since an ...
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• What really happened

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  Back in August I blogged about faxing a HIPPA compliance form to Johns Hopkins Hospital to get some medical records from my 1967 heart surgery. I already had the records, actually, but I had managed to misplace several of them. So I filled out another compliance form and faxed it to the Medical Records office. ...
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• Partners of the Heart

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  In honor of Red and Blue Day, what follows is a reprint of an article I wrote for the November 2009 issue of The Right Heart Times , the newsletter of the CHD support group Hypoplastic Right Hearts : The Blalock-Taussig Shunt (Shunt means “detour”) was the brainchild of one of the most unusual people in ...
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• Government panel finds link between Chinese drywall used in new U.S. home construction

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 590
   The federal government said Monday that it has found a “strong association” between problematic imported Chinese drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires, a conclusion that supports complaints by thousands of homeowners over the last year. In its second report on the potentially defective building materials, ...
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• Kill Your Stutter – Stop Stuttering Secrets

  
  Natural Remedy for Yeast Infection — Authority: 137
  We people are really fond of speaking and talking. But often stutters for so many reasons. You might be wondering what stuttering means.Well, stuttering is a speech defect or disorder where in a person repeats words, syllables and sounds. It is also a distraction of fluency in a normal flow of speech. Now we will try ...
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• Imperfecting Carbon Nanotubes Makes Them Very Good Fast-Charging Batteries

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  Prabhakar Bandaru, a professor in the UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, along with graduate student Mark Hoefer, have discovered that artificially introducing defects in carbon nanotubes would increase their energy storage capacity.
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• Growing blood vessels

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  Here’s a medical discovery made by cancer researchers that can benefit Funky Hearts, too. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have recently discovered a protein that controls the growth of new blood vessels . These researchers want to limit blood vessel growth in cancer patients, at least temporarily: if ...
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• The Beta-carotene Defect

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 490
      Beta-carotene was named after the carrot, the vegetable that was used in discovering its existence. Other similar substances were found by scientists who all bundled them together under the name of carotenes, even though they have nothing to do with the carrot. Beta-carotene may also be referred to as ...
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• Which HLHS surgery works better?

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  Update: My friend is out of surgery and doing well! The three operation Norwood Procedure was developed in the 1980’s as an answer to Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) . Since infant heart transplant was developed at about the same time, HLHS was 100% fatal before the invention of the Norwood. But the ...
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• AHA: Adult Congenital Defect Care Infrastructure Needs Work

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  ORLANDO (MedPage Today) With adult survivors of congenital heart defects numbering more than a million now, creating the infrastructure for their long-term follow-up and care has become increasingly urgent [...]
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• Genetic defect linked to vitamin A deficiency in women

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 18 (ANI): Almost half of the British women might be lacking an important source of vitamin A due to previously undetected genetic defect.The vitamin helps the immune system ward off common infections such as flu and is important for healthy skin.Although dairy products and eggs are known as a rich source ...
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• My Premature Gift

  
  http://unexpectedblessing.wordpress.com — Authority: 114
  Today, November 17th, is National Premature Birth Awareness Day. Hello, my name is Lauren. I am the mother of a prematurely born child. (Hello, Lauren – that’s your line. C’mon – all together now. Hello, Lauren!) Our second daughter was born three and a half weeks early after 42 grueling hours of labor. I ...
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• toilet installation on uneven base.

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 160
  hello there,I have just installed a new toilet and I see the toilet base is lifting around 1/4 inch off the ground on front end as the tiling is not perfectly level. I am not sure the previous one lifted as much – but this is as good as I can get now with all [...]
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• Mechanical Man

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  Frank had a problem . Frank had a stroke, and then the doctors diagnosed him with Dilated Cardiomyopathy . That is not a Good Thing to have, as the heart muscle has become enlarged and weakened. Frank was in heart failure, and at the moment, he was not long for this world. So doctors at the Texas Children’s ...
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• Study comparing two surgeries for infant heart defect shows mixed results

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): Scientists have found mixed results in the first head-to-head comparison of two surgeries for infants born with severely underdeveloped hearts - the most common severe heart birth defect.One surgery worked better initially but was associated with more complications, and by 2 years of age the ...
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• You need a buddy!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  Here’s a good post by The Happy Hospitalist about the mental checklist a doctor goes through whenever a patient is examined. In this case, however, the doctor misread an important sign and decided to send the child home.  Happy describes what happened next: Several hours later the child was complaining of a ...
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• Study finds mixed results comparing two surgical strategies for infant heart defect

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure -- yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2009. Babies born with a critically ...
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• Composer Ilaiyaaraja cancels music release of ‘Paa’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Subhash K. JhaMumbai, Nov 14 (IANS) The music event of upcoming movie “Paa” that was scheduled for Children’s Day Saturday here was cancelled, thanks to workaholic composer Ilaiyaaraja who is not ready to break his “creative process to attend the function”.Now, the sound tracks will hit the outlets Sunday ...
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• One Short Story

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 129
  As I have mentioned before, I worked at an agricultural museum for ten years. We were a small operation – so small, almost every task had to be shared. I’ve set up exhibits, taken down exhibits, repaired exhibits, run the Admissions Desk, worked in the Museum Store, led all of our educational programs, given ...
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