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News -02-21-06 Procedure Calms Erratic Heartbeat (ABC News) "An atrial fibrillation starts in the veins that feed into the left upper chamber in the heart — the left atrium. Abnormal electrical signals from these veins spread throughout the upper chambers causing an irregular heartbeat that leads to troublesome symptoms." "For some, medications control the problem, but for others, a relatively new procedure called ablation allows doctors to literally get to the heart of the matter and destroy the enemy." 02-06 -03-14-06 Study: Crestor Found to Reduce Heart Disease (CBS News) "New research indicates that the powerful statin Crestor not only drastically lowered cholesterol levels by more than 50 percent, it actually reversed heart disease." 03-06 -05-01-07 Heart Attack Deaths Plummet (MSNBC News) "In just six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply, most likely because of better treatment, the largest international study of its kind suggests." 05-07 Papers Heart Disease and Strokes (American Medical Association) Provides articles on the prevention and treatment of heart disease and strokes. 1-04 Heart Muscle Regenerates (USA Today) Provides a summary of a major medical finding, that a heart can repair itself after a heart attack. Before this, scientists and doctors believed that heart muscles could not be restored after they were damaged in a heart attack. 6-01

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