Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Comarow, Avery. "Heart Attacks." Attacking the Heart Attack. 4 July 2004. 29 Apr. 2008 .
The author of this article, Avery Comarow, shares about heart attacks and the how the team at Northwestern University discovers and test how the damage of the heart attack could be minimized and reversed. The author shares about pathologist Robert Jennings and his research team to demonstrate radical ideas about heart attacks. To test these ideas the team places a block in one of the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart muscle, for various periods of time and then removed the blockage. Team members found that the blood-starved tissue could se saved if circulation to the area was restored soon enough. Driven with confidence the team will continue to further their studies and open to new ideas and studies.

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