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I just saw this on CNN five minutes ago.... Don Lemon telling Dana Bash that Sarah Palin is "a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and that's a 72-year-old heart!", to which Dana agreed and went on to say that Palin's executive experience for the past 13 years includes "a year and a half in the Gvernor's mansion and the rest as mayor of a small town in Alaska!" (emphasis made by her on the words "small town" and "Alaska"). This MSM 'meltdown' is so blatantly obvious........

Vice President Cheney is scheduled to undergo surgery next weekend to treat an aneurysm, his spokesman confirmed to Roll Call today.

In a sharp change from current policy, an influential medical advisory group is recommending that all men ages 65 to 75 who have ever smoked have an ultrasound screening test to see if they are developing a condition that could kill them in minutes by bursting a major artery in the abdomen. The group, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, is an independent panel of medical experts that advises the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Its recommendations help set government policy and are generally followed by primary care doctors. The task force last looked at the condition,...

Story last updated at 1:23 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2003 Lubbock is trip of a lifetime for patient BY CHARLES L. EHRENFELD AVALANCHE-JOURNAL José Tercero received a second chance at life, and it came from somewhere he never would have thought to look. While exercising two years ago, the San Salvador, El Salvador, resident felt his left arm go numb. "They discovered an aneurysm and a dilated aortic valve," Tercero, 44, recalled Friday. "At that time, it was big enough to warrant surgical repair." To complicate the matter, when he began searching for a surgeon to perform the life-saving heart...

<p>Matthew Jacob Garcia will never know his mother, a young woman who loved the sea, country music and her soul mate -- her junior high school sweetheart and husband of just one year.</p> <p>But perhaps one day he will understand that his mother's death, only three hours after his premature birth, helped four other people who now have a second chance at life thanks to her healthy kidneys, liver and heart.</p>