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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers allow two hospitals to expand cardiac procedures]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-09-04 14:04:03</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dr. Richard J. Bing dies at 101]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-11-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Richard J. Bing, a research cardiologist, composer and author who has been called a "Renaissance man" and "a man for all seasons," died Monday at his home in La Caņada Flintridge. He had celebrated his 101st birthday a month earlier and had been...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Social media helps patients share their news]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-28 02:18:11</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Medical updates are no longer hushed discussions held behind closed doors. They're going viral. And they're increasingly being shared with family, friends and, sometimes, digital strangers.

"Prayer warriors we ask that you keep our little Angel in prayer...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dr. Richard J. Bouchard, cardiologist]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 14:47:29</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Richard J. Bouchard, a retired cardiologist who played an instrumental role in the establishment of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at St. Agnes Hospital, died Saturday from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New names announced for hospitals in Berkeley, Jefferson counties]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/hm-new-names-announced-for-hospitals-in-berkeley-jefferson-counties-20130513,0,7629065.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-13 16:35:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What were, until Monday, City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Charles Town, W.Va., are now Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center, both under the umbrella of University Healthcare.

The new names were announced...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pulmonary hypertension often misdiagnosed, research finds]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-x-pulmonary-hypertension-study-20130508,0,7256292.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Whitney Gaspar has long known that she didn't have much endurance. 

When she was in secondary school, Gaspar said she ran a "slow mile" in gym class of 14 to 15 minutes and "avoided stuff (that required) a lot of endurance." 

Then in December 1999,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[State report outlines Kwiatkowski's time in Maryland]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-20 19:39:39</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Supervisors at a Maryland hospital weren't surprised when drugs were missing from a treatment room where contract radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was assigned.

A manager had spotted him going through needle-disposal containers and he was among...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Danville emergency crews prep doctors before patients get to hospital]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wdbj7-danville-emergency-crews-prep-doctors-before-patients-get-to-hospital-20130320,0,3032875.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-20 14:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Monitoring a person's heartbeat and pulse has been a practice for more than one hundred years. 

Danville is taking the process and advancing it to the 21 century. 

Each of the city's fire engines now have its own portable electrocardiograms. 

The EKG...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hospice Cares: Heart disease presents itself in unusual ways with women]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-20 07:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[February is the month devoted to matters of the heart, so it&rsquo;s a great time to consider the health of this vital organ. Heart disease once was mostly associated with men, but today it is the No. 1 killer of women, accounting for half a million...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hospital employees work to improve cardiac care for local patients]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/da-ot-hospital-employees-work-to-improve-cardiac-care-for-local-patients-20130213,0,88571.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-02-13 13:23:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ron Petrunak remembers the wonder he experienced the first time he watched a heart catheterization in 1984. 

He said he still feels that &ldquo;wow factor&rdquo; as he watches the doctors and staff at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center moving forward in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Do I have heart disease?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-30 02:30:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Q. I'm a 67-year-old woman with high blood pressure. Two weeks ago, I felt some chest pressure and went to the emergency department. The pain cleared up when they gave me an antacid. My EKG and blood tests were normal.

The doctor thought my pain might be...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hospital auxiliary donates $50,000 to Time Saves Lives]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-04 20:32:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[West Virginia University Hospitals-East City Hospital officials announced Nov. 30 a $50,000 donation by the City Hospital Auxiliary in support of the $3 million Time Saves Lives capital campaign.

In mid-November, WVUH-East officials launched the pubic...]]></description>
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