But today, at the annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association and in the medical journal Lancet, researchers announced that Tricor failed to stop heart attacks and prevent deaths in a five-year study of almost 10, 000 diabetics.
In 1996, Acorn founder Cliff Alferness got the idea that something as simple as putting a sleeve over the heart could stop the heart's deterioration.
They also found mercury, which would have been used stop the heart from decomposing.
On the tape, Kevorkian injects muscle relaxant into Youk's arm to stop his breathing, and then injects potassium chloride to stop his heart.
He advised against carrying out cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should Mrs Shinwell's heart stop.
These machines use electric shocks to restart the heart should it stop, and in the past two years they have become an option for treating heart failure.
Health bosses say they have decided not to take legal action against the decision to stop children's heart surgery at a Leicester hospital.
In August Leicester's NHS trust announced it had decided not to take legal action against the decision to stop children's heart surgery at Glenfield.
The decision to stop children's heart surgery in Leeds is to be referred by the regional health watchdog to the Secretary of State for Health.
Rooney said the surgeon at the Manchester clinic told him he had never experienced a similar situation in his 22 years in the job and was mystified by what had caused his heart to stop.
The Royal Brompton Hospital in west London is to stop performing children's heart surgery, it has been confirmed.
The technique he used caused an air bubble to stop Mr Belcuore's heart.
His still delicate heart came to a stop, as if suddenly cast in stone, only to shatter into pieces when it came charging back.
After a while the learner would start to complain about the shocks, say his heart was hurting, that he had a heart condition, and finally stop responding.
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Experts speaking at a major women's health conference in London on Monday warned that girls need to take care of their health to stop their babies going on to develop heart disease, strokes and diabetes.
Because while a romantic city should grab hold of your heart, it shouldn't stop there.
What's to stop juries from blaming Vioxx for strokes and heart attacks that would have occurred anyway?
And while Aventis' cupboard is relatively bare when it comes to new drugs--and Allegra's patent could expire as early as 2005--Sanofi is developing many promising medicines, including a stop-smoking drug and a treatment for heart rhythm irregularities.
Why did her new companion stop short of doing that which would make her heart sing?
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart adopts an irregular rhythm that makes it stop beating.
Eating a special diet called the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan can help protect your heart.
One motive: Sanofi's Acomplia, an experimental medicine for treating obesity and helping patients stop smoking, also seems to raise good cholesterol and fight heart disease.
In fact, for anything up to the next six years, it won't stop providing information, about every aspect of Terence's heart, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
However, deep in his heart, you can tell that Larry never really wanted to stop being CEO.
Singer Gruff Rhys told BBC Wales that it was "like a dagger to the heart, we've had a petition to try and stop us playing and the mayor's complained".
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The US president and his team also made a brief stop at Shwedagon Pagoda, the Rangoon landmark that has been at the heart of many key moments in the country's history.
When the girl apparently suffered a heart attack, the band stopped for 20 minutes and wanted to stop playing altogether.
Treatments such as diuretics (which speed up the elimination of water and salt), beta-blockers (which cause the heart to beat more slowly and less forcefully) and ACE inhibitors (which stop the production of water-attracting chemicals) have long been available.
But Pfizer said in a press release Saturday night that it had to stop a 15, 000-patient study meant to show that torcetrapib saves lives and prevents heart attacks three years early.
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