Heart valve replacement

Heart valve replacement A heart valve replacement is a procedure in which the doctor inserts an artificial valve to replace a heart valve that is not working well.

The 'Magic' Pill? Orlistat (Xenical) has been on our shores for the last few months, and yet patients arent exactly lining up at my door asking for it. Although millions of Europeans have taken the drug for years...

Company warns about defective pacemakers St. Jude Medical, the St. Paul, Minnesota-based manufacturer of cardiac devices, sent a letter to physicians earlier this week informing them that some of its pacemakers may be defective...

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Engineering Body Parts From Scratch Today, a doctor treating a diabetic's hard-to-heal foot ulcer can open a sterile plastic bag, take out a swatch of artificial skin containing two layers of living human cells, and apply it to the wound to speed its healing...