1.   And in a more preliminary but likewise promising study, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are reporting Tuesday that they have used gene therapy to revive failing heart cells.

2.   And you can paint it any color your failing heart desires.

3.   Between raging fevers and broken arms, between failing hearts and aching stomachs, Guiteau steals a little time for his own soul.

4.   But whenever doctors have tried to help a failing heart, the body has seemed determined to defeat them.

5.   Drugs that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system have been used to increase cardiac output in patients with failing hearts.

6.   Even artificial heart pioneer Robert Jarvik has abandoned the idea of a totally implantable heart substitute in favor of tiny pumps that merely assist failing natural hearts.

7.   Failing hearts can be repaired with bypass surgery and angioplasty, which help restore the flow of blood to heart muscle.

8.   He recalls the terror of being awakened at night by shortness of breath, a hallmark of a failing heart.

9.   I bent over his chest with my stethoscope and heard the soft syncopation of a failing heart.

10.   In the future, some patients may benefit from an experimental operation that cuts out part of the failing heart to improve pumping capacity.