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8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant 8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant
8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant The community is rallying around the mother of an 8-year-old boy from the region who is waiting to undergo his second heart transplant. Rensselaer County resident Nicole Miller, of the town of Nassau, turned to GoFundMe for help after learning that her son Damien’s heart was failing two years after the boy was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. It marked the second time the young boy’s life was upended by heart issues, Miller recounted on the GoFundMe. When he was just 10 months old, Damien was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital after his heart stopped while being treated at Alb…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Nuclear Testing: It’s For The Heart, Too Nuclear Testing: It’s For The Heart, Too
Nuclear Testing: It’s For The Heart, Too DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- “Don’t go ‘nuclear’” might be a warning to someone who is highly stressed and overreacting to a situation, but when it comes to testing the impact of stress activity on the heart, “nuclear” may be just what the doctor ordered. That’s because use of nuclear material, radioactive isotopes that act as a “dye,” can give physicians more accurate information about the size of a heart’s chambers, its efficiency in pumping blood and the presence of any damaged heart muscle. The test also has an estimated 85 percent accuracy rate in determining whether any of a patient’s majo…

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