71. The four-hour course is available to emergency and rescue personnel, security guards, airline personnel, family members of heart patients and other lay rescuers. 72. The drugs, by all accounts offering many benefits to heart patients, are expensive. 73. The infant Olivia becomes the youngest-ever heart transplant patient, operated on immediately after she is born. 74. The idea that lowering stress can improve outcomes for heart patients is not new. 75. The most famous heart patient in America is still recuperating from emergency surgery. 76. The one product was Reopro, a drug made by Centocor of Malvern, Pa., that prevents blood clots in heart patients. 77. The Mountain View, California-based company provides monitors that allow asthma, diabetes and heart patients to record their own health data and report it by phone. 78. The number of pills that a heart patient now is advised to take each day is beginning to rival that for people infected with the AIDS virus. 79. The panel voted to recommend FDA approval of the drug, also known as clopidogrel, which is designed to prevent heart attacks and strokes in heart patients. 80. The patients in the study were heart patients undergoing coronary care known as stenting, where tubes are used to prop open clogged arteries. |