By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- A mesh patch designed to regenerate cardiac muscle damaged by a heart attack or heart failure has done well in animal studies and preliminary human trials.

The patch is made of vicryl, a material used for suturing injured tissue that is later absorbed by the body, explained Jordan J. Lancaster, a predoctoral fellow at the Southern Arizona VA Medical Center in Tucson, who reported on the animal studies Wednesday at an American Heart Association meeting in Keystone, Colo.

Dr. Joseph Mercola, a well known and highly regarded MD in the Chicago area, has an Ezine that is worthwhile and provides current health information. I'm sure many of your already subscribe. (mercola.com)

As a follow up to a recent post regarding your health freedoms, I've included a link from 06.19.08 Mercola Ezine.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...

Friday, June 6, 2008
Time To Talk About CAM:
Health Care Providers and Patients Need To Ask and Tell
Provided by: NIH News

Thank you for your questions and comments. Let's look more closely at the impending June 10th issue. We can talk about the pros and cons about vaccines all day long and it won't matter because if we don't click on the link and send our letters now, we stand to lose our freedom to have any choice whatsoever.

Part of my job is to provide education (facts) regarding health issues. I don't usually impose my personal belief system on anyone. But since you asked, Tina, the answers to your questions are 'yes' and 'yes'. It's about health issues AND health freedoms. I will detail:

Friends and Colleagues,

We are facing serious health freedom consequences in the US that have not been mentioned during the nightly news.  Please take a moment to look at the attached Health Freedom Alert regarding vaccinations which will, for the first time in US history, make infant and toddler vaccinations MANDATORY.   I have researched the rise in number of infant thru 12 year old vaccinations over recent years.  The numbers are staggering.  

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/womenshealth...

An article last week says that women are underrepresented when it comes to clinical trials.

“The situation has left doctors with a lack of study participants and may be leaving women with the short end of the stick when it comes to developing gender-based treatments, like one for lung cancer that is targeted to women because it interacts with estrogen in the tumor.”

Have you ever participated in a clinical trial? If not, what prevents you from being a participant?

If you would like to learn more about clinical trials, visit

How do you store and quickly access your and your family’s personal health records? Since having a child, I realized how important it is to keep track of his routine and not-so-routine medical visits, developmental milestones, vaccines, prescriptions, OTC medicines, weight and height, and on and on… Not only is this information important to keep, it’s even more important to be able to access it quickly, and be able to maintain it easily and efficiently.

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The ads, which began appearing May 21 in 58 major daily newspapers, promote the department's Hospital Compare Web site, which is designed to help consumers make well-informed decisions when selecting a hospital.