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In the News

• new heart health guidelines for women - cnn.com

• exercise helps the depressed heart patient - heart center online

• fat reducing gene linked to red wine - heart center online

• new guidelines in cholesterol - NIH / NHLBI

• FDA issues warnings for Crestor - MSNBC news / AP

Medical Publications

• Lancet article on PPCM - Sliwa K, Fett JD, Elkayam U
• 100 cases of peripartum cardiomyopathy...and counting - Fett JD, Dowell DL, Carraway RD, Sundstrom JB, Ansari AA
• Matters of the heart - A NurseWeek interview with Susan Dancer, RN, PPCM survivor
• eMedicine's November 2004 outline on PPCM
• Treatment of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Dennis M. McNamara, MD; a publication that touches on the possibility and likelihood of a successful subsequent pregnancy after PPCM
• Inflammation and virus in dialated cardiomyopathy as indicated in endomyocardial biopsy - Fett JD - letter to the editor - Science Direct
• Outcomes of Subsequent Pregnancy after Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series from Haiti - James D. Fett, MD; Len G. Christie, MD; and Joseph G. Murphy, MD