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Woman awake during heart surgery a first (Stuff)
The first heart operations in New Zealand of a type which uses local, not general, anaesthetic, were a success today, Waikato District Health Board says.
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Tauranga woman lively after historic heart operation (Stuff)
The woman who underwent the first transcatheter aortic valve operation at Waikato Hospital yesterday says she's thrilled with the result.
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WHO: Social environment key factor for health inequities (People's Daily)
A lot of people in the world can not enjoy good health because of the social environment where they are born, live, grow, work and age, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Thursday. Biology does not explain why a girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan, and why the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17,400 in Sweden, ...
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Historic heart operation to take place in Hamilton today (The New Zealand Herald)
Doctors at Waikato Hospital were this morning performing the first heart operation of its type in a New Zealand public hospital. The transcatheter aortic valve implementation on a 79-year-old Tauranga woman will be the first of four planned at the hospital over two days.
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Historic heart operation in NZ (TVNZ)
A historic heart operation is to be performed by doctors at Waikato Hospital on Thursday. It is the first heart operation of its type in a New Zealand public hospital.
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Heart Patient "Comfortable" After New Procedure (Scoop.co.nz)
The 79-year-old Tauranga woman who underwent a transcatheter aortic valve implementation at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton today is comfortable in the cardiac care ward after her two-hour operation.
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Tainted meat death toll climbs (CNews)
An elderly Madoc, Ont., woman who died of listeria was laid to rest today amid lingering questions about whether she was a victim of the same strain at the heart of a nationwide outbreak.
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Woman Prefers Jail Over Returning Book (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
A Maine woman says she'd rather go to jail than turn over a library book she deems "dangerous."
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New heart operation NZ first (Otago Daily Times)
Two women, aged 79 and 91, were the first people in New Zealand to undergo a new type of heart operation which uses local, not general, anaesthetic, at Waikato Hospital.
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SoCal Woman Dies Of West Nile Virus (NBC San Diego)
A 72-year-old Buena Park woman became the first person to die this year of West Nile virus in California, and two more people in San Diego County have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease, health officials said.
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