Latest Health Articles for Heart Failure
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Obituaries in the news
article 2009-04-18 | Author: The Associated PressEd BlakeSWANSEA, Ill. (AP) — Ed Blake, an Illinoisan whose 15 seasons of professional baseball included time spent with the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Athletics, died Wednesday. He was 83.Blake died at Rosewood Care Center after a long illness, Belleville alderman Catherine Kreher said Friday.Blake was 17 when he ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2009-03-16 | Author: The Associated PressJoanne Gore DavisLOS ANGELES (AP) — Altovise Joanne Gore Davis, a dancer and actress and the widow of Sammy Davis Jr., died Saturday. She was 65.Davis died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a stroke, said Amy Malone, a publicist for her family.Davis worked her way to the ...
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Giving birth is fraught with danger in Haiti
article 2009-03-16 | Author: Jonathan M. KatzThe pain was different from before — deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.In rushed her sisters with candles and water. Then came the midwife, who made tea from ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2009-03-11 | Author: The Associated PressJimmy BoydSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Boyd, the child singer and actor best known for the original rendition of the Christmas novelty hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" in 1952, died Saturday. He was 70.Boyd died of cancer at a Santa Monica convalescent hospital, longtime friend ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2008-12-28 | Author: The Associated PressDelaney BramlettLOS ANGELES (AP) — Delaney Bramlett, the singer-songwriter-producer who penned classic rock songs such as "Let it Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday. He was 69.Bramlett died shortly before 5 a.m. at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2008-12-06 | Author: The Associated PressForrest J AckermanLOS ANGELES (AP) — Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent and magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," died Thursday. He was 92.Ackerman died of heart failure at his Los Angeles ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2008-11-09 | Author: The Associated PressMieczyslaw RakowskiWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poland's last communist-era party chairman and prime minister, died Friday, Polish media and officials said. He was 81.Polish media reported Saturday that Rakowski died after a long battle with cancer. A number of Polish officials, including former President Aleskander Kwasniewski, appeared ...
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Music photographer William Claxton dies at 80
article 2008-10-13 | Author: StaffWilliam Claxton, a celebrated photographer who worked with such entertainers as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra and who helped establish the organization that runs the Grammy Awards, has died. He was 80.Claxton died Saturday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications stemming from congestive heart ...
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Half-ton Mexican man dies after pleading for help
article 2008-10-08 | Author: Mark WalshA 450-kilogram (990-pound), bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and put him in the back of a friend's pickup truck as he ...
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Obituaries in the news
article 2008-08-07 | Author: The Associated PressGeoff BallardTORONTO (AP) — Geoff Ballard, a Canadian pioneer of the fuel cell industry and an entrepreneur Time Magazine once named one of its "Heroes for the Planet," died Saturday. He was 76.A company official confirmed Ballard's death. The cause of death was not disclosed.Ballard developed the world's first hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered, ...