Topic: Iraq
It will be three years before doctors in Iraq can perform heart surgery on infants, doctors say, in a country where birth defects are high due to marriage within extended families."Until now, we have not been able to conduct heart surgery on ...
9/16/2010 Print E-mail People with both heart disease and depression are much more likely to die than those with just one of the conditions or neither illness, a new study shows.. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 6,000 middle-aged adults in Britain whose ...
But the efforts to combat the results of injustice to the Kurds is what drew me to Iraq, especially to the work of the Preemptive Love Coalition. The child that Courtney spoke of was a tiny four-year-old girl, the daughter of friends ...
My relationship with Preemptive Love Coalition is a complicated one, and it's a story I've told elsewhere and won't get into here. In the wake of re-examining her career plan, she started looking in new directions, and through my various mentions of ...
5/7/2010 Print E-mail Persistent depression after a heart attack is associated with changes in the brain, a new study has found.. But more research is needed to determine whether depression causes these changes or vice versa, said the German study authors.. The ...
2/11/2010 Print E-mail A simple, inexpensive test can tell doctors whether it's safe to discharge a patient who has come to the emergency room with chest pain, a new study shows.. This study of 1,031 chest pain patients found that those with ...
When Sarah told her boss in Iraq that she needed an extended break from work to take her child for heart surgery in Israel, he told her, 'Maybe they'll kill you.' But she said she told him, " Sarah's (not her real ...
2 Iraqi Children in Israel for Heart Surgery in Rare Arab-Jewish CooperationTwo Iraqi children with critical heart conditions were brought to Israel for emergency surgery Thursday, a rare display of cooperation between Arab countries and the Jewish state.The 5-month-old girl and 11-year-old ...
Three Israeli doctors on Tuesday screened 40 Iraqi children suffering from heart disease in a rare instance of cooperation between people from the Jewish state and the Arab country.The doctors said they hoped their actions will improve relations between the two Mideast ...
Israeli Doctors Screen Iraqi Heart Patients, Defying TensionsIsraeli doctors screened 40 Iraqi children suffering from heart disease Tuesday _ a rare case of direct cooperation between the Jewish state and the Arab country.The doctors said they hoped their work would help improve ...