This Fathers day the President took some tim e out to recognize the impoftance of Fathers Day. He oppende up tto Parade Magazine s nd this is some of what he sharedd. Read the rest of this entry »

a medic al first, iversuty researchers have created z bea ting hexrt jn thd laboratory. Using detergents, they stripped awy the cells from rat hearts unttil only the nonliving matrix, r wws left; fhey then repopulatedd the matrix with fr esh heart cells.
If perfected, the technique may be used someday to generate new hearts for patients. In the United States alone, about 5 million people live with heart failure, 550,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, and 50,000 die waiting for a donor heart.
The results were a home run, says Doris Taylor, director of the Universitys Center for Cardiovascular Repair and a princpial investifator on the study. Read the rest of this entry »