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British girl's heart heals itself after transplant

By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng, Ap Medical Writer Tue Jul 14, 12:40 am ET

British doctors designed a solution a save a girls major heart problem on the year 1995. They implanted a donor heart onto her own failing heart. After 10 years of having two hearts pumping for Hannah Clarks to live, she majorly healed itself enough for the doctors to have the reason to remove her donated heart and have his own heart properly working for her. She would only have to pay for the drugs she is taking when she is at that kind of state.

"It reminds us that not all heart failure is lethal," said Dr. Ileana Pina, a heart failure expert at Case Western Reserve University and spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. "Some heart failure patients have a greater chance of recovery than we thought."

It also encourages all the people having heart failures. They have a chance now to live more and also for doctors that practicing on this kind of field.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_heart_transplant




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Windows XP Officially Retired By Microsoft



According to Paul McDougall in the informationweek.com Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers after June 30 but it will continue its offer to small independent pc makers until July of the next year. But they would also gain continued access to XP for an indefinite period if they would try to models of vista based computers.

Some of the reasons is that there are less Vista users than XP users today since Vista craves more for compatible pc.


According to Paul, Microsoft said that Windows XP would be available to ultra-low-cost pc's and laptops such as the asus until 2010.

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