Merck's defense of the tort suits will hinge on the difficulty of proving that Vioxx was the culprit in any one heart attack, instead of smoking, cholesterol or other causes.
It has been demonstrated several times that towns initiating laws limiting public and workplace smoking see in a decrease in heart attack rates within one year of enacting the laws.
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. a leader in advanced cardiovascular disease treatments, is the number-one heart valve company in the world and the global leader in acute hemodynamic monitoring.
The singles chart has been a weekly fixture in the UK since 1952, when Al Martino claimed the first number one with Here In My Heart.
In one hour, your heart burns enough energy to raise a ton of lead three feet off the ground.
Police say a man charged with murder as a hate crime shot Carson in the head in the heart of one of the city's most progressive neighborhoods.
The film profiles four people whose lives center on the New Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a dingy bare-bones gym in the heart of one of New York's most hope-deprived neighborhoods.
Alder Hey, one of the biggest children's hospitals in Europe, is one of seven in England which will continue performing heart operations on children after next year.
Now, however, there are data showing some sign of heart risk for every Cox-2 inhibitor ever approved in the U.S. Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in one cancer prevention study, and now the same is true for Celebrex.
For decades doctors and scientists obsessed over one key factor in heart attacks--high cholesterol--and devised drugs to treat it.
In one of those incidents, heart surgeon Charles Sciolaro says he had a patient who requested a pacemaker made by St.
There was just this big open space left in my heart that no one ever bothered to fill and no one knew was there.
One son won in heart-stopping fashion.
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Her unemployed in-laws, one of whom has a serious heart ailment, had to move in.
New England Patriots star Tedy Bruschi has one covering a hole in his heart.
Every one point rise in HDL decreased heart disease risk by 2%, the Framingham researchers concluded.
The study showed Inspra may reduce the number of deaths occurring in heart failure patients by one-sixth.
New England Patriots star (and recent stroke survivor) Tedy Bruschi has one covering a hole in his heart.
"I'm still Spanish in my soul and in my heart, " says one British Sephardic Jew, who asked not to be named.
"We eat, drink, laugh, dance in lightness of heart, " one woman reported.
Wigan's performance was a battling one - which should give them heart in their quest to avoid the drop - but it also showcased enough fluency and ability to make one wonder why even with this point they remain in the relegation zone, albeit only on goal difference.
The two deaths that appear to be the greater source of concern in the study were one patient with acute heart failure and another with respiratory failure.
This week's court-enforced auction of a hulking concrete pile in the heart of Prague belonging to one of them, the International Union of Students, was halted amid squabbles among its dozens of creditors.
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Even Lampard's late strike was little more than Chelsea deserved, despite a brave backs-to-the-wall performance from Southend, who belied their position 56 places behind the Blues down in League One with a performance full of heart and determination.
Concepts discussed have included live uploading of fitness stats so performance can be monitored in real time, music that matches its BPM to heart rate and the one thing that is rarely discussed - video conferencing in a way that even Google Glasses will struggle to replicate.
It has always had a special place in mine and my family's heart, and I know that this is one of the most exciting jobs in football.
The thought of children having to live in sewers is one that can wrench almost any heart.
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But how many cases of heart failure would one expect in such an elderly group irrespective of treatment?
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DeCode says that nearly 50% of heart attack patients in Iceland have one of the two inflammation-causing genes.
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