When medications and surgeries and procedures like angioplasty no longer work, the only other course of action has been a heart transplant.

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In the two years she's been working on "Live Through This, " Dese'Rae Stage says only one of her subjects has had a change of heart and asked not to be publicly identified.

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His son Albert, who was born with half a heart, had open heart surgery when he was only seven days old and has received ongoing treatment at Glenfield Hospital.

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You may feel that it has no terms of its own, only a good heart and the will to please.

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The Madrid lab has made only baby steps toward its grand plan to grow a human heart using the same techniques that Dr. Taylor pioneered with a rat heart.

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However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a "decision memo" stating that only people having certain serious heart conditions or cardiac histories are suitable candidates for ICDs.

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Not only does DROID RAZR by Motorola deliver heart-pounding speed, but it has a mind-bending 4.3-inch hyper-vibrant display with more colors than most LCD HDTVs.

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For Bextra, there is a 2.5-fold increase in risk, but so far this has only seen in heart bypass surgery.

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