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Heart Failure Videos

Moose Skowron Dies at 81
April 27, 2012 | WFLD FOX 32 Chicago, IL

UT Professor's Battle Against Time
April 23, 2012 | KTBC FOX 7 Austin, TX

A toddler saves her great-grandmother’s life
April 20, 2012 | KNXV ABC 15 Phoenix, AZ

Heart Failure Wikipedia Information

Congestive heart failure (CHF), also called congestive cardiac failure (CCF) or just heart failure, is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood through the body. It is not to be confused with "cessation of heartbeat",...

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Procedure gives patients with A-fib who can’t take blood thinners alternative to reduce stroke
May 08, 2012
May 7, 2012 - Patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib) who cannot take blood thinners now have an alternative to reduce their risk of stroke, which is five...

Sutter Davis Hospital named as one of nation’s top hospitals
May 08, 2012
On April 16, Thomson Reuters published its 19th edition study abstract of the 100 Top Hospitals in the United States. Sutter Davis Hospital is on the list of top...

“I am still your mom”
April 25, 2012
My husband heard these words from his mom as she lay in a hospital bed after having spent hours in the emergency room because of heart failure. It was a...

Note to Dick Cheney: Congratulations on receiving a new heart
March 25, 2012
March 25, 2012Congratulations on receiving a new heart. I have read with interest over the years of your various pace makers and finally your ALVAD . We have a...

Heart Felt Class for Heart Health
February 27, 2012
Dr. Michael McCloud chats with students before launching Week 4 of Mini Med SchoolThere is no wonder that UC Davis School of Medicine has aworld class...

‘Addiction Incorporated’ film focuses on tobacco whistleblower
March 15, 2012
Cigarettes are bad for you. That's been an incontrovertible truth for about 50 years now. The only thing that can still surprise is the level of alleged...

From around the web

< b> Kinship caregivers: More support needed, study says
May 23, 2012 | indystar.com
Middleton went on disability after incurring congestive heart failure and hypertension, and relied almost entirely on Social Security benefits. Her grandson, Shane, also had...

New health care payment system links costs, patients' outcomes
May 18, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Like other accountable care organizations, the Fort Dodge program is focusing first on patients who have chronic health problems, such as diabetes, cancer or heart failure,...

Fallen Iowa law enforcement officers to be honored today
May 18, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Hildreth died of heart failure in February 2008 while exercising in the department's gym. Toney was killed in September 2011 when his patrol car ran off the road and caught fire...

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May 17, 2012 | indystar.com
Rob Miller, 45, now lives in Plainfield and works at Delco Foods Inc. He is in the critical care unit at Methodist Hospital in heart failure, awaiting a new heart, said Alesia...

< b> Alzheimer's: Clock ticking with new plan to fight disease
May 15, 2012 | indystar.com
He noted that cardiologists do not test cholesterol-lowering drugs on people already near death from heart failure. It's clear that Alzheimer's quietly brews in the brain,...

< b> Pot belly risk:' Spare tire' raises odds of heart arrest
May 10, 2012 | indystar.com
But when he factored in co-occurring conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure and a high LDL, or'' bad,'' cholesterol, among other problems, only...

Heart Failure on twitter

	I was about to have a heart failure o was wondering how this fool got back on my timeline but he was retweeted Twitter: @Luv_Piink
	RT @NHLwiki: #NHL -- Former #Sabres and #NYR player Paul Cyr has passed away from heart failure at age 48. http://t.co/lrMp935k #RIP Twitter: @Mike_Habs
	RT @NHLwiki: #NHL -- Former #Sabres and #NYR player Paul Cyr has passed away from heart failure at age 48. http://t.co/lrMp935k #RIP Twitter: @MapleLeafsGuru
	#NHL -- Former #Sabres and #NYR player Paul Cyr has passed away from heart failure at age 48. http://t.co/lrMp935k #RIP Twitter: @NHLwiki
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	RT @escardio: Digoxin in high risk Heart Failure patients with reduced ejection fractions #hf2012 http://t.co/YBXT1cnz Twitter: @gerardo_viveros