This is pretty neat…
One day, out of nowhere, I received a call from Lindsay Clark, Director of Health Programs for the Alliance For Aging Research. If you didn’t know, the Alliance for Aging Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating medical discoveries.
It turns out that Lindsay’s team is currently working on some [...]

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I just received an interesting email from Tammy that touches on heart valve surgery, atrial fibrillation and the MAZE procedure.
Tammy writes, “Adam – Like a couple of your readers (Mark, Patrick and Anita), my doctor has suggested that I need a combo operation that includes a mitral valve repair due to regurg and a Maze [...]

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In case you missed it, there was a very interesting announcement yesterday about Medtronic’s minimally invasive heart valve replacement, known as the Melody heart valve. Here are the highlights…
U.S. regulators have approved Medtronic Inc’s minimally invasive heart valve, one of the first replacement valves that can be implanted via a catheter rather than open-heart surgery.

Medtronic’s [...]

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Thanks to your help… Last month, we announced the launch of our new, online Heart Valve Surgeon Database. This unique database is the world’s first heart valve surgeon directory created by patients for patients.
Today, I am excited to announce that a complimentary Apple iPhone App for the Heart Valve Surgeon Database is now available for [...]

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My wife, Robyn, loves the television show Grey’s Anatomy.
That said, on Thursday nights, after Ethan goes to bed, we enjoy watching the trials-and-tribulations of the fictitious Seattle Grace Hospital.
I will admit, the writers of Grey’s Anatomy do a great job developing likable characters (Meredith, McDreamy, The Chief) that are caught in a perpetual whirlwind of [...]

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