After undergoing another surgery to replace Medtronic leads--wires connecting the pacemaker to the heart--with ones from Guidant, Davis sued both the hospital system and Haugland, charging medical malpractice and complaining that the second surgery could have been prevented.
On Jan. 15, Pharmacia announced an alliance with Reykjavik, Iceland-based DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) to find genes that predispose people to progress from early forms of heart disease to later ones.
Aside from the obvious relief they could bring to tens of thousands of patients suffering from life-threatening heart conditions, long-lasting ones also reduce the need for heart transplants.
Now that Chinese companies have learned the ropes from foreign ones, Beijing seems to have had a change of heart.
You will find yourself in the midst of a sensory assault as you soak up the aroma of roast chicken and bratwurst, pick out a colourful gingerbread heart to take home to your loved ones and avert your gaze from the pimply-faced teen who has had one beer too many.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
In fact, part of the reason for the fervent interest in these topics is that the free, unfettered internet and free educational resources (particularly those related to science and technology like the ones MITx is offering) and the small companies that emerge from them are closer to the heart of job creation than large corporations.
Except that researchers still couldn't prove that the heart, nerve, muscle and other cells they made from the iPS cells were exactly like the ones generated from the embryonic stem cells.
You can scrawl to your heart's content, add in text boxes and background images from your gallery or take new ones and then send the note off via email or some social network.
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