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3 weeks ago | 
aol.com | Fiona Nimoni |Michael Bristow
Former baseball player Shigeo Nagashima, who was once one of Japan's most famous sports stars, has died aged 89. He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, according to a statement released by his former team the Yomiuri Giants. Nicknamed Mr Giants, Nagashima won nine straight titles with the team in the 1960s and 70s, playing in 2,186 games and hitting 444 home runs. Commenting on his death, a government spokesman said Nagashima had given society "bright dreams and hopes".
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Dec 10, 2024 | 01248-0/abstract?rss=yes&sz=64)
onlinecjc.ca | James White |Mohamad Rabbani |Ali Fatehi Hassanabad |Alessandro Satriano |Dina Labib |Carmen P. Lydell | +10 more
KEYWORDS TAVR Three Dimensional Strain Left Ventricle Computed Tomography Prognosis ABBREVIATIONS AS (Aortic stenosis) 3D-MDA (Three-dimensional Myocardial Deformation Analysis) CCS (Canadian Cardiovascular Society) ICD-10 (International Classification of Disease-10) minPS (Minimum Principal Strain) mpCTA (multi-phase computed tomography angiography) NYHA (New York Heart Association) PS (Principal strain) STS-PROM (Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality) TAVR (Transcatheter...
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Aleks Phillips |Michael Bristow
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
aol.com | Aleks Phillips |Michael Bristow
October 6, 2024 at 7:54 AMAll 75 people on board have now safely been rescued [Reuters]The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa. The HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ship, came into trouble about one nautical mile from the island of Upolu on Saturday night local time, while conducting a survey of a reef. It later caught fire before capsizing.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | Faarea Masud |Michael Bristow
Toyota-owned carmaker Daihatsu has closed all four of its plants until the end of January, after admitting it had falsified safety tests. Daihatsu admitted that it had been manipulating safety tests on 64 makes for three decades. Its headquarters in Osaka, Japan was the last to close, on 25 December. The scandal puts in jeopardy 9,000 workers in the country and could affect global car giant Toyota's reputation. Of the 64 models involved in the scandal, 24 are sold with Toyota branding.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | Michael Bristow
The Chinese capital, Beijing, has experienced its coldest December since records began in 1951. Temperatures in the city have frequently fallen below -10C this month. It has been a year of extremes in the capital: six months ago, Beijing recorded its hottest ever June day - just over 40C. China has been hit with several waves of extremely cold weather already this winter. Parts of northern Japan have seen huge snowfall, and South Korea has been battling freezing temperatures.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Michael Bristow
3 hours agoMore than 87,000 people have been resettled after the 6.2-magnitude quake, which struck a remote mountainous area between Gansu and Qinghai provinces on Dec. 18. BEIJING — The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor …
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
aol.com | Michael Bristow |Kathryn Armstrong
Beijing shivers through coldest December on recordMichael Bristow & Kathryn Armstrong - BBC NewsDecember 25, 2023 at 4:03 AMMore than 300 hours of below-freezing temperatures have already been recorded in Beijing this monthThe Chinese capital, Beijing, has experienced its coldest December since records began in 1951. Temperatures in the city have frequently fallen below -10C this month.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nature.com | Robert J. Lefkowitz |Howard A. Rockman |Paul J. Shim |Samuel E. Liu |Seungkirl Ahn |Sudarshan Rajagopal | +3 more
arising from T. Benkel et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34765-w (2022)The introduction of β-adrenergic receptor blockers, “β-blockers”, as a treatment for heart failure decades ago was a major advance in cardiovascular medicine1,2,3,4. Moreover, it has been clear for a number of years that some β-blockers with “intrinsic sympathomimetic activity” (ISA) due to weak partial agonist activity mediated through G protein stimulation did not share this salutary effect5,6.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
jacc.org | Thomas Martin |Miranda A. Juarros |Joseph C. Cleveland |Michael Bristow
IntroductionHeart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the industrialized world.
