Heart
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Food
Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart…
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Food
Heart Pump Is Linked to 49 Deaths, the F.D.A. Warns
The agency faulted the device maker for delayed notice of mounting complications, citing increasing reports of how use of the…
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Food
Frequent Marijuana Use May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Study Suggests
A new study analyzed several years of surveys on increases in marijuana and cannabis consumption.
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Food
Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease, Scientists Say
The American Heart Association will release a new clinical tool that removes race as a factor in predicting who will…
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Opinion
Football Is Deadly, but Not for the Reasons You Think
When Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during the N.F.L. “Monday Night Football” game earlier this week, it felt like…
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US
Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Highlights Danger Across Sports
The collapse of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills has brought attention to sudden cardiac arrest and the need for…
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US
Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest: What We Know and Don’t Know
Cardiac doctors say that blows to the chest causing an erratic heart rhythm are highly unusual, but not unheard-of in…