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FILE - This Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo shows fliets of Copper River Salmon from Alaska in Seattle. Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found. The work, published in the Thursday, May 9, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine, makes clearer who does and does not benefit from taking supplements of omega-3 fatty acids, the good oils found in fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Study: Fish oil doesn't help prevent heart attacks

Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found. The work makes clearer who does and does not benefit from taking supplements of ...

Heart of teen killed in crash donated to friend

The heart of a Pasadena teen killed in a hit-and-run crash is giving an ailing friend a chance to live. Skylar Marion, 15, was hit on April 12 by an SUV while walking along a road, and he was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center. At the same ...

Ind. girl, 8, gets long-awaited heart transplant

A Terre Haute girl hospitalized since January with complications from a congenital heart defect has received a new heart in a transplant operation in Indianapolis. The Tribune-Star reports (http://bit.ly/11mRlGH ) 8-year-old Katelyn Newell underwent the surgery Wednesday night at Riley Hospital for Children after doctors learned that a suitable donor ...

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