23-year-old’s ailing heart suddenly mends itself

Pharmacy student Michael Crowe, 23, went to an Omaha hospital in August suffering from toxic blood poisoning, which led to acute myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.But after setbacks in his quest to get a heart transplant, his failing heart suddenly mended itself.

A 23-year-old Nebraska man suffering from toxic blood poisoning stunned doctors after undergoing a “miraculous” recovery in which his failing heart suddenly mended itself.

Doctors still don’t have [...]

3 workers suffer cardiac arrest at Japan waste incineration plant — 49 microSv/hr found in scrap last month — Doctor associates with Cesium-137

July 10, 2012 report in Yahoo Japan translated by Dissensus Japan:

3 out of 7 workmen who was taken to a hospital from the waste incineration in Akita City suffers cardiopulmonary arrest, according to Kyodo News Service.

2 of them recovered consciousness.

Later, Kyoto corrected the number of workmen who was taken to a hospital was 9.

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According to Akita Sakigake Shimbun, about 16:30 on July 10, the workmen fainted and the city’s environmental [...]

The smallest artificial heart in the world, weighing only 11 grams, was enough to save life of an infant boy suffering a deadly disease. Italian doctors who completed the surgery say it kept the baby alive till a donor was found

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The smallest artificial heart in the world, weighing only 11 grams, was enough to save life of an infant boy suffering a deadly disease. Italian doctors who completed the surgery say it kept the baby alive till a donor was found.

This is the first time that such a small heart has been implanted to human. The boy suffered from dilated myocardiopathy, a disease which eventually would atrophy the heart muscle [...]