Cardiology

Don't cut lifesaving ICDs during financial crisis, ESC warns

Implantable devices for treating cardiac arrhythmias, which include ICDs, are already underused in parts of Eastern and Central Europe and there is a risk that the financial crisis could exacerbate the problem. The European ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Child heart patients treated for rare surgical infection

At least a dozen children who had heart surgery at Children's Hospital New Orleans between late May and July have infected incisions, apparently from contaminated equipment.

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