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Pre-Existing Conditions: Your Own Health Care Reform
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Mayo’s “Smart” Adult Stem Cells Repair Hearts
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Reduce Your Heart Attack Risk: Marry an Educated Woman
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Whac-a-Mole Cardiology
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View ArticleTo Stent or Not to Stent
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The author concludes that “someone in her situation would have had bypass surgery.” Uh, not necessarily the case… from the article: The princess has thus become the oldest known case of coronary...
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Note the emphasis on: “social support, relaxation therapy, yoga, meditation, controlled slow breathing, and biofeedback” Acute Emotional Stress and Cardiac Arrhythmias/strong> Roy C. Ziegelstein, MD...
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