MEDICINE The Pump That Works Like a Heart 'Much of heart surgery is pure mechanics/ says Dr. Domingo Liotta. His new artificial heart points the way to a permanent mechanical heart that will succeed where transplants have failed. By ...

EMORY. CRAWFORD. LONG. HOSPITAL. Remarkable. Cardiac. Care. in. the. Heart. of. Atlanta. heart hospital time we intro Nearly one in every 10. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Atlanta's Atlantan Don Plunkett participated in the Peachtree Road ...

... heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Blacks. Cardiovascular disease— which includes heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and hardening of the arteries—claims more than 100,000 African-Americans each year ...

... Heart and Vascular Center Ian J. Sarembock, MD Associate Medical Director, Heart and Vascular Center Charles R. Hattemer, MD Medical Director, Cardiology John Paul Runyon, MD Medical Director, Vascular Services Richard Budde, MD Medical ...

... heart attack and amputation is substantially greater in these individuals with PAD who continue to smoke compared ... heart failure and death. In the "Heart Outcome Prevention Evaluation Study," patients with coronary disease ...

... heart failure. According to the American Heart Association, heart failure is an incurable disease that prevents the heart from pumping as well as it should. "Heart failure in African-Americans is the top issue that we need to address ...

... heart every minute. It's been estimated that every day your heart pumps enough blood to fill a 4000- gallon tank car, that in those same 70 years your heart will pump some 500,000 tons of blood. The surgery of a heart transplant is a ...

... Heart Association, I I Alive, Atlanta's NBC Affiliate, will be a part of a major movement to educate women on the diseases that claim the lives of more than 500,000 women each year. "The Go Red for Women campaign is a fantastic ...

... heart condition. The condition became so severe that Gay was forced to choose between getting a new heart and dying. He got a heart transplant, and since the surgery he has been getting better and better. This year, Gay celebrated his ...

... HEART. The National Heart Insti- I tute's Artificial Heart Program strives to replace damaged human hearts with an implanted machine that can take over the job of pumping blood through the body at a rate of 42 million beats per year. The ...