And this is one thing that Director Bill Reed was trying to get people not to focus just on the center of circulation or on the coast.

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Translating medical research into practice is never easy, but Dr. Ben Abella, a co-author on the Circulation paper and the clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science, says that hypothermia is an especially hard pill for some to swallow.

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The time it took for ambulances to arrive on the scene was similar for men and women, according to researchers at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, who published the study in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

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