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• The Best “Players of the Year”

  
  LinksLifeGolf — Authority: 471
  by Jeff SkinnerThis past golf season was filled with many great and interesting stories. The four majors all had interesting finishes and deserving winners and many players and tournaments had memorable years. While I am always thrilled to see excellent play on the course it is the personalities and stories behind the ...
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• Something For The Weekend 14

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  It’s a situation you might expect to come across in a bad-taste comedy sketch: heart transplant patient – tubes everywhere, chest opened up – on operating table; surgeon examining grisly-looking donated organ.“Don’t quite know what I can do with this,” he mutters. “Wasn’t quite what I was expecting. ...
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• “Super Ted” - The baby who has almost died three times and fought back

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 491
  Ted Parks, a baby just five months old and fighting for life has returned from the brink of death three times after his heart stopped. Nurses have been in awe of his fight for survival and dubbed the baby, “Super Ted”. "Super Ted" with father Stephen. Copyright North News and Pictures Ltd. Super Ted ...
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• Study comparing two surgeries for infant heart defect shows mixed results

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  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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• Heart Transplants: A Brief History

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Twenty-five years after Baby Faes death following the worlds first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure
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• Young athletes need dual screening tests for heart defects, study suggests

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.
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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: 640
  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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• Veronica De La Cruz Named Among Twitter Activists You Should Be Following

  
  WriteChic Press — Authority: 127
    Veronica De La Cruz, Twitter Activist This is a great Friday story to go with the discovery of water on the moon .   The Huffington Post names some of the top activists on Twitter you might think about following when you’re thoroughly bored with tweets about Balloon Boy and Kate Gosselin’s funky ...
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• Waiting, and Hoping, For a Heart

  
  Dr. Wes — Authority: 531
  A patient, recently listed for cardiac transplantation, tells his story about being rejected, then accepted, to the cardiac transplantation list: Next week, Ill check into Mayo, one of the worlds premier hospitals, to undergo additional treatment in preparation for receiving a new heart. Since my brain tumor turned ...
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• First Pediatric Patient With Implanted Mechanical Heart Device Released from Texas Hospital

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 724
  Houston, TX (AHN) – Texas Children’s Hospital has released a child with a mechanical heart while he waits for a donor heart. The facility is the nation’s first pediatric hospital to discharge a child while on the device, a feat only accomplished by adult institutions. The patient, 16-year-old Francisco ...
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• Texas Childrens discharges first pediatric patient with implanted mechanical heart device

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
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• Cleveland Clinic Performs Total Artificial Heart to Dual Heart and Liver Transplant

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  SynCardia Systems Inc. announced that Cleveland Clinic has performed the world’s first Total Artificial Heart to dual heart and liver transplant. After living with the total artificial heart for 113 days, on May 1, 2009, Dr. Michael Zabell received the donor heart and liver during a 14-hour surgery involving two ...
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• Charles Tillman speaks about the Berlin Heart in Washington

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington DC, Oct 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The star cornerback for Chicago Bears Charles was invited to Washington DC to speak about the Berlin Heart on October 26th. His pretty baby daughter Tiana Tillman was tragically diagnosed with a rare heart disorder called cardiomyopathy, which is an enlargement of the heart that ...
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• Baby Fae – Remembering Heart Transplantation

  
  binggobinggo.com — Authority: 147
  Born with a disease called hypo plastic left heart syndrome Stephanie Fae Beau Clair is known as Baby Fae to the world at large needed a heart transplant. It’s not very long ago that the children born with heart. Leonard Bailey and surgeons at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital gave. On 26th October 1984, ...
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• UT Southwestern patient first in North Texas to receive newest-generation heart failure device

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  DALLAS -- Oct.
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• Baboon Heart Transplant Baby Fae’s Legacy

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 532
  Twenty-five years ago today, one special little girl underwent an untested, foolhardy procedure in an attempt to save her life.  Born with a disease called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, Stephanie Fae Beauclair, known as Baby Fae to the world at large, needed a heart transplant.  Dr. Leonard Bailey and surgeons at ...
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• Baby Fae, the 25 year anniversary of a ground breaking procedure

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 491
  Dr. Leonard Bailey of Baby Fae fame pictured on the right It’s a special day for Dr. Leonard Bailey, 66, who gained international fame in 1984 after transplanting a baboon’s heart into an infant girl. Twenty-five years ago today, the eyes of the world were on a baby girl who needed a heart, Baby Fae. ...
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• H1N1 Flu Challenges Heart and Lung Transplants

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 127
  By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today The pandemic H1N1 flu poses special problems for people getting heart and lung transplants, according to an advisory from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The pandemic virus "highlights unique aspects of transplant care that ...
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