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Experimental treatment makes 70-year-old a poster boy for science Mike Swendseid seemingly had run out of options in battling heart disease. The Grand Forks man had angioplasty. He underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery. Inside him were four wires, two stents, a pacemaker and a defibrillator. "After the last stent, doctors told me there was nothing more they could do for Mike," said his wife, Marion. But, as science progressed, there was something. In January, the 70-year-old Swendseid became a recipient of experimental stem cell treatment at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, which is part of Abbott Northwestern Hospital. The treatment uses Swendseid's...

KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATIONPART 1: advice from billWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 9.08.04   -KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION- PART 1: advice from billKerry is UNFIT #22: THUMBSUCKER SERIES (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) Former President Bill Clinton, in a 90-minute telephone conversation from his hospital room, offered John Kerry detailed advice on Saturday night on how to reinvigorate his candidacy, as Mr. Kerry enlisted more Clinton advisers to help shape his strategy and message for the remainder of the campaign. In an expansive conversation, Mr. Clinton, who is awaiting heart surgery, told Mr....

NEW YORK (AP) — Former president Bill Clinton was described as doing well Tuesday, breathing on his own as he recovers from an operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they had posed imminent danger of a major heart attack. He was taken off his respirator Monday night — a crucial step in his recovery, Bob Kelly, a member of Clinton's surgery team, said Tuesday. "Everything is going very well," Kelly said on NBC's Today. Clinton underwent the four-hour quadruple bypass operation Monday at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia. His heart disease was extensive, with blockages in some arteries well...