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<title>Man pleaded with doctors to saw off his leg, inquest told</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206901794</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 15:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pleaded with doctors to saw off his diseased and extremely painful leg took a painkiller  ...  conditions including kidney failure and a diseased heart valve. But it was an agonisingly painful knee  ...
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<title>Suicide man&#39;s plea: &#39;Saw my leg off&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206867137</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 11:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pleaded with doctors to saw off his diseased and extremely painful leg took a painkiller  ...  conditions including kidney failure and a diseased heart valve. But it was an agonisingly painful knee  ...
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<title>Man wanted leg sawn off - inquest</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206858920</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pleaded with doctors to saw off his diseased and extremely painful leg took a painkiller  ...  conditions including kidney failure and a diseased heart valve. But it was an agonisingly painful knee  ...
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<title>Man wanted leg sawn off</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206856324</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 10:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pleaded with doctors to saw off his diseased and extremely painful leg took a painkiller  ...  conditions including kidney failure and a diseased heart valve. But it was an agonisingly painful knee  ...
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<title>Weakened mitral valves are treatable</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206855690</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 10:17 GMT</pubDate>
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... Weakened mitral valves are treatable, but type of surgery makes  ...  repair--90% of his patients have mitral valve disease, and he performs several hundred valve repair  ...  Mitral valve prolapse is an extremely common heart disorder that occurs when the valve between  ...
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<title>Jett Travolta&#39;s Death Raises Awareness Of Kawasaki</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206782038</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is rraising awareness of an entirely different disease, a potentially fatal disorder called Kawasaki Syndrome.  ...  &quot;It can actually affect muscles of the heart and valves and a person can have arythmia problems  ...
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<title>Glance-STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-Banks stocks not cheap - Citi</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206707980</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  &#39;buy&#39; rating ahead of the pumps and valves manufacturer&#39;s trading update on 8 Jan. Numis  ...  at which, he says Athena &#39;is its heart&#39;. In reaction, the broker raises its performance  ...  Cimzia, which is already marketed for Crohn&#39;s disease, to win approval for the new use.  ...
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<title>Should doctors be able to turn away patients?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206629306</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  are a Jehovah&#39;s Witness and need your heart&#39;s mitral valve repaired. Any blood transfusion is against your  ...  belief systems. After all, we treat infectious diseases at our own peril, but that&#39;s the  ...
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<title>NZ&#39;s low levels of heart surgery probed</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206614009</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... NZ&#39;s low levels of heart surgery probed An investigation is under way  ...  OECD countries despite high levels of heart disease. A national cardiac surgery task force last  ...  Health that heart surgery, including bypass and valve replacement, be increased over the next five  ...
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<title>From a machine that reads your thoughts to glasses that cure dry eyes: The breakthroughs that will change lives in 2009</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206604026</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 03:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  As with cancer treatment, the major advance heart patients will benefit from this year is  ...  have surgery to repair a leaking heart valve. The operation carries a 20 per cent  ...  elderly or those weakened from chronic heart disease,&#39; explains consultant cardiologist Dr Iqbal Malik. &#39;We  ...
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<title>From a machine that reads your thoughts to glasses that cure dry eyes, the breakthroughs that will change lives in 2009</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206595139</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  As with cancer treatment, the major advance heart patients will benefit from this year is  ...  have surgery to repair a leaking heart valve. The operation carries a 20 per cent  ...  elderly or those weakened from chronic heart disease,&#39; explains consultant cardiologist Dr Iqbal Malik. &#39;We  ...
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<title>Alternative to Open Heart Surgery</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206528174</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 17:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Clip is a device inserted into the heart by a catheter. It is used to  ...  and fasten the leaflets of the mitral valve of the heart, which can become loose  ...  cold sweat, nausea, or dizziness. ABOUT HEART DISEASE: Most heart diseases arise from hardening of  ...
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<title>--&gt; Edwards Lifesciences to Present at the 27th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206495705</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 14:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, is scheduled to participate in the 27th  ...  the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif.,  ...
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<title>Edwards Lifesciences to Present at the 27th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206492861</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 14:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, is scheduled to participate in the 27th  ...  the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif.,  ...
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<title>YOUR MONEY: Curbing health bills brings different cost</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206445677</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 07:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  hard to take people from later-stage chronic disease to an earlier stage,&quot; said Michael Scandrett,  ...  Jim Ehrler, is 46 and has a heart-valve defect that his doctor recommends monitoring with  ...
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