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"Forget the ice chest, this donor heart comes warm and still beating in a box"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 07:24

"If you think about it, it’s strange that we keep to-be-transplanted human hearts in the same thing that we keep our Coronas in when we head to the beach. There must be a better way than sticking the heart on ice and flying it to its recipient. The heart can only be kept on ice for about six hours, so private jets, helicopters, and ambulances have to rush the heart to its recipient as fast as they can.

However, TransMedics has created what it calls a self-contained Organ Care System. Unlike normal transplantats which involves a donor heart being stopped, put on ice, and then transported in a cooler, the new strategy transports the still warm and beating heart in a box."

"Life expectancy in a free fall"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 07:17

"U. WASHINGTON (US) — More than 80 percent of counties in the United States have life expectancies behind the 10 nations with the best records.

The low numbers can be attributed to high rates of obesity, tobacco use and other preventable risks, rather than the size of the nation, racial diversity, or economics.

“We are finally able to answer the question of how the United States fares in comparison to its peers globally,” says Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington."

"Apple employee loses prototype iPhone in bar"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 06:55

"In an incident which echoes the loss last year of an iPhone 4 prototype, the employee was drinking in Cava22, a “tequila lounge” in San Francisco’s Mission district, in July when the new device went missing.

It may have been sold on Craigslist for $200, CNET, a US technology website, reports.

Apple reportedly electronically traced the prototype to a house in the Bernal Heights district, and visited with local police. The man at the address claimed no knowledge of the phone and allowed officers to search the premises."

"Prolonging CPR doesn't help heart patients"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 06:49

"WASHINGTON — Increasing the time spent administering CPR to cardiac arrest patients won't increase their chances of survival, researchers said Wednesday, putting to rest one of the raging debates in emergency medicine.

"Our study definitively shows that there is no advantage to a longer period of initial CPR," said Dr Ian Stiell, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), one of the entities leading the study.

Paramedics and firefighters traditionally have provided only brief CPR while readying a defibrillator to jolt the heart into restarting."

"Hamiltonians trapped with lead feet"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 06:45

"Lead foot drivers, look out.

A new list compiled by the National Motorists Association has ranked Hamilton the second-worst city in Canada for speed traps, or zones in which officers stealthily enforce the speed limit.

With five speed traps for every 100,000 residents, Hamilton ranked 15th overall on the association’s list of the 25 cities in Canada and the U.S. with the most reported speed traps."

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