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Study: New device boosts heart failure survival
ORLANDO, Fla. - For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe heart failure. But can we afford it?
2009-11-17
Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.
Nations:U.S. People:Sarah Palin Source:(AP)
2009-11-12
Bypass surgery safer using heart-lung pump: study
BOSTON (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(Reuters)
2009-11-05
His tiny agency has big role in energy debate
WASHINGTON -- As energy increasingly dominates the economy, a quiet little agency in Washington holds the responsibility for tracking the particles that conduct, fuse, blow, heat, combust and convert the earth, wind and water into the energy that makes our society run.
Nations:U.S. People:George W. Bush Barack Obama
2009-11-01
How Goldman secretly bet on the housing crash
WASHINGTON - In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.
Nations:U.S. People:Henry Paulson Edward Kennedy
2009-11-01
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