Grassley Pushes Fda On Medical Device Rules

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Happiness helping your heart? LONDON -- You've heard it before: to avoid a heart attack don't smoke, eat right and exercise. But it also might help to be happy, a new study says. Even if you're grumpy by nature, just try to be cheerful. Researchers at Columbia University rated the happiness levels of more than 1,700 adults in Canada with no heart problems in 1995. After a decade, they examined the 145 people who developed a heart problem and found happier people were less likely to have had one. The study was published online in the European Heart Journal.

CHICAGO - A few years ago, a star surgeon at a prominent Chicago hospital implanted a small triangular heart device he helped invent in more than 150 patients. Now a heavyweight senator is pushing to close a loophole that allowed the device to be marketed without government approval.

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Grassley Pushes Fda On Medical Device Rules

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is asking the Food and Drug Administration in a letter dated Tuesday for an immediate update on how it plans to clarify its guidelin...

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