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There are four basic levels of emergency medical service personnel: Medical first responders: Trained at basic levels.

HEART DISEASE BACKGROUND: Heart and blood vessel disease - cardiovascular disease also called heart disease - includes numerous problems, many of which are related to a process called atherosclerosis.

Ventrus Biosciences is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the late-stage clinical development of gastrointestinal products in areas of unmet need, specifically hemorrhoids, anal fissures, and fecal incontinence.

The new research findings demonstrate that cardiac ischemia plays an important role in adenovector gene transfection in mammalian hearts.

Researchers at Emory University used standard balloon angioplasty and cardiac infusion catheters to deliver Cardium Therapeutics' gene-therapy product candidate Generx into coronary arteries to initiate the growth of new blood vessels.

The automotive world's most famous failed chicken farmer, Carroll Shelby, died Thursday, May 10 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, 110 miles due west from tiny Leesburg, Texas, where he was born on January 11, 1923.

Participating in a patient's first heart attack can be an extremely stressful event.