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Today's News Flashes

4/30/08

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Artificial Blood Deemed Deadly
Hemoglobin-based blood substitutes (HBBSs), or artificial blood, may put patients at risk for heart attack or even death, a new study reveals.

HRT Ups Risk of Stroke
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be putting women at increased risk for stroke, despite the type of hormones they receive or when they begin taking them.

Predicting Heart Failure Hospitalizations
What causes people with heart failure to have to go to the hospital? And more importantly, can anything be done to keep them at home instead?

Don’t Sleep too Much or too Little
Sleeping more or less than the recommended seven or eight hours a night can put you at risk for metabolic syndrome -- a group of conditions like high cholesterol and high blood pressure that are closely linked to heart disease.

Is Laparoscopic Pancreas Surgery Better?
People undergoing surgery of the pancreas might do well to opt for a less invasive, laparoscopic approach.

FREE VIDEO: Helping Stroke Patients Walk Again
After a stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury, re-training the brain to walk can be a real challenge. Until now, there hasn't been a good device to help people. But now all that is changing.