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<title>Implantable Defibrillators: Who Needs Them and Can We Afford That?</title>
<description>Cost effectiveness is a field of avid study in medicine, although there is often controversy about the various formulas one. One area currently under discussion is the implantable defibrillator. These devices are certainly not inexpensive. But in the righ...</description>
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<pubDate>17th November 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Do You Need a Pacemaker? Avoid These Three Common Mistakes</title>
<description>If you just suddenly got the news that you might need a pacemaker, you are going to find out two things. First, it's a big decision. Second, no one is really out there trying to help you make that decision. Your doctor may advise you to take a few days to...</description>
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<pubDate>04th September 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Help! I Need a Pacemaker!</title>
<description>More than half a million people a year get a pacemaker, and if you or a loved one just found out that you might be in that number, you need to get information. But you are going to find out that there is not a lot of information available. Most people do ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_1056416_23.html</link>
<pubDate>30th August 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Has Christianity really held women back?</title>
<description>There is a notion sometimes articulated in the press or media that religions, in particular Christianity, has done a lot to hold women back. These critics point to the fact that the Bible talks about plural marriages and men being the lords of their house...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_1001607_24.html</link>
<pubDate>28th July 2009</pubDate>
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<title>What You Should Know Before You Visit that Cruise Website</title>
<description>If you're thinking about cruising for the first time or want to book your next cruise vacation, chances are excellent you'll explore online to find out your options. You won't be disappointed, either. There is a great deal of information about cruising on...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_998773_29.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Four Things the Bible Has to Say About Childrearing</title>
<description>There is no book on the Bible about raising children. Advice on parenting is spread out throughout Scripture. The Bible actually makes four major points on the relationship of parents and children. Taken together, they could form a powerful child-raising ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_995315_24.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd July 2009</pubDate>
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<title>A Primer for New Pacemaker or Defibrillator Patients</title>
<description>If you recently had a pacemaker or defibrillator implanted or if you know someone who did, you probably figure that life as you knew it was over. That's not really the case--but the first few weeks as a pacemaker person can be a bit of a hurdle.

Healin...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_995096_23.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd July 2009</pubDate>
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<title>The Women of the Bible May Surprise You</title>
<description>A lot of people who do not regularly read the Bible have forwarded the notion that the Bible minimizes or discounts women. It is true there are places here and there were women were not named (such as the wife of Noah) but there are plenty of places where...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_919614_24.html</link>
<pubDate>06th June 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Pacemakers and Heart Attacks</title>
<description>If you need a pacemaker, it is most likely because you have an arrhythmia not because you have some heart condition that is going to predispose you to a heart attack.

The purpose of a pacemaker is to regulate the electrical system of the heart to stabi...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_913917_23.html</link>
<pubDate>04th June 2009</pubDate>
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<title>What Doctors Are Saying About Pacemaker Recalls</title>
<description>The Heart Rhythm Society just held its annual scientific sessions this year. The Heart Rhythm Society or HRS is the official medical society for doctors and other healthcare professionals who specialize in arrhythmias and pacemakers.

With many topics o...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_912901_23.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd June 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Why Queen Esther of the Bible Remains a Controversial Figure</title>
<description>The book of Esther is a story in the Bible about a powerful woman who plays power politics in the court of King Xerxes, one of the greatest and most ruthless historical figures of the ancient world. Esther risks her life in a game of high-stakes politics ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_718487_24.html</link>
<pubDate>13th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>A New Twist on Self-Publishing</title>
<description>Not so very long ago, those few writers who tried to produce their own work rather than rely on traditional (and clique-based) publishers were considered pitiful individuals of inferior skills who couldn't break into print any other way. In fact, they eve...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_716730_50.html</link>
<pubDate>11th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What Pacemaker Patients Must Know about iPods</title>
<description>Portable music devices have been considered safe for pacemaker patients to use, but new reports suggest that the earbuds from such devices can cause problems for pacemaker people. Earbuds held near the pacemaker implant site can sometimes interfere with t...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_715188_23.html</link>
<pubDate>08th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Symptoms You Should Know about Cardiac Arrhythmias</title>
<description>Pacemakers have been around for decades, yet there is still a lot of misunderstanding about how they work, what they do, and who needs them. Millions of people around the world wear pacemakers, yet it is something that is rarely talked about.

People ge...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_657124_23.html</link>
<pubDate>06th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Shocking Story of Defibrillators: What They Do, Why They Do It</title>
<description>The word defibrillator is heard more and more these days. You hear it on the news and even about external defibrillators being installed at sports centers and public places. But what is a defibrillator, really? And why are they important?

The popular n...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_601236_23.html</link>
<pubDate>16th August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What You Should Know About a 50-Year-Old Heart Therapy That Is Surprisingly Modern</title>
<description>It may be hard to believe, but the cardiac pacemaker is celebrating its 50th birthday this year.

If you're math impaired or need some cultural points of reference, pacemakers were first invented before I Love Lucy went into syndication and they were in...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_596051_23.html</link>
<pubDate>13th August 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Basics of Walking a Marathon</title>
<description>There is something terrifying about the word marathon. After all, a 26-mile run is nothing to be undertaken lightly. Marathon winners are elite athletes who train year-round.

Yet a growing movement is occurring around the world that allows more and mor...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_579486_32.html</link>
<pubDate>17th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Esther of the Bible Could Teach Women Today a Thing or Two About Politics ... and Religion!</title>
<description>It is terribly modern to think that things today are quite different from the way they were in ancient times, particularly in terms of the role of women in business, society, and politics. Yet in ancient times, women were often astonishingly powerful and ...</description>
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<pubDate>17th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What People with Arrhythmias Must Know about Pacemakers</title>
<description>It is not unusual for a person who finds out that he or she (or a loved one) needs a pacemaker to feel suddenly isolated and alone. There is not a great deal of information online, either. But here's a surprise. Pacemakers have helped literally millions o...</description>
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<pubDate>16th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Find Out What Debt Consolidation Really Means ... Now and Later On Down the Road</title>
<description>Go online and you'll find lots of information about debt and how to manage it. But you'll also find that many of these sites throw around terms that sound like one thing, but may mean another. It's not so much deception as the fact that a lot of debt term...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_577230_19.html</link>
<pubDate>15th July 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Top 7 Myths About Debt (And The Facts)</title>
<description>While debt is a common problem in our culture today, it is not always discussed in a productive way. In fact, it is often not discussed at all. That means that most of us worry a lot about debt, but few of us really learn about it.

That is precisely th...</description>
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<pubDate>05th June 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Top 10 Myths About Debt Consolidation ... and The Truth You Must Know Now</title>
<description>If you are a cash-strapped person facing mounting debt, you may have heard the term debt consolidation thrown around. You may have even considered it. But what you don't know is that you might not understand it.

Of all the financial plans available for...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_538669_19.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Two Business Models for Writers Who Want to Earn Money Online</title>
<description>I am making two assumptions here. First, that you're a writer and second that you are at least vaguely or theoretically interested in making money as a writer online. So what do you do next?

It's important first to understand business models.

So man...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_533984_50.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What Every Writer Has to Know about the Internet and the New Writing Business Model</title>
<description>What follows is a succinct history of the media. Please stick with me, it'll be worth it in the end. You see, a revolution happened, and I wanted to be sure you didn't miss it.

In the beginning, books were handwritten on scrolls made of leather. They w...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_533389_50.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Tips to Keep that Business Client for Your Freelance Writing Business</title>
<description>Business writing is a lucrative assignment for freelance writers to pursue, but not all writers know what to do with a business client even if they manage to land one. If you are a writer who is seeking business clients (or have some already), know that t...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_477773_50.html</link>
<pubDate>21st February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Financial Secret Nobody is Talking About!</title>
<description>Lots of Americans have money problems and lots of Americans have the wrong idea about how to solve them. Most people in debt whine and complain about not earning enough. They gripe about not getting raises and dream about winning the lottery. While income...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_476816_19.html</link>
<pubDate>19th February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>A New Way of Looking at Debt That May Surprise You</title>
<description>Ask a person with overwhelming debt what his or her biggest problem is and that person will invariably say, "Debt!" Most people in that situation dream of living debt-free.

But is debt really the enemy?

It may interest you to realize that many of th...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_473920_19.html</link>
<pubDate>13th February 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Secrets of Writing for Online Niches: What Ink-and-Paper Writers Must Know to Thrive</title>
<description>If you want to work online, you've probably run into many philosophies about niche marketing. A niche is a narrowly focused, highly defined subject. When you write for a niche, your writing can be very deep, but it cannot be broad. For instance, sports is...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_208466_50.html</link>
<pubDate>29th August 2007</pubDate>
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<title>How Specialization Can Jump-Start Your Writing Career</title>
<description>Professional writers and those who aspire to earning a living from writing may or may not be familiar with the argument of generalization versus specialization but they surely know the concept. Should a writer be an expert in the field in which he or she ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_203063_50.html</link>
<pubDate>17th August 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Why Writers Need to Consider Writing for a Living Now More Than Ever</title>
<description>Whenever I get asked what I do for a living, the answer of being a writer evokes two main responses. Either I get a polite nod, which means they consider my answer somewhat above "bank robber" but below "actually employed" or I get an eager look from some...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_200833_50.html</link>
<pubDate>13th August 2007</pubDate>
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<title>The Savvy Writer's Guide to How the World Has Changed in the Last Five Years</title>
<description>A man by the name of Johannes Gutenberg invented a movable type press in 16th century Germany. He knew the invention was big when he got the idea, in fact, he believed it was divinely inspired. Gutenberg knew that movable type would make it faster, easier...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_195377_50.html</link>
<pubDate>01st August 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Why Debt Consolidation May Be Your Best Solution to Debt Right Now</title>
<description>If you've got a lot of debt that you are struggling to manage, you have probably heard the term debt consolidation. Debt consolidation is an interesting approach to managing debt that differs from things like debt settlement or bankruptcy. For the right p...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_194711_19.html</link>
<pubDate>31st July 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Know When You Have Too Much Debt ... Before It's Too Late</title>
<description>Debt is fact of life for most of us today, and how well we manage debt reflects not just our financial skills but also our emotional styles. All of us react to debt in different ways. Depending on your attitude and personal feelings about money, it is qui...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_191715_19.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2007</pubDate>
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<title>What Writers Must Know about Internet Commerce</title>
<description>Let's assume you're a writer and you want to make money by writing. In the olden days (last year, maybe) you would think up an article idea, hammer a few paragraphs out, and then check with some editors if they were interested in buying a finished product...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_191669_50.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2007</pubDate>
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<title>What Every Home-Based Business Owner Must Know about Debt Now</title>
<description>One of the main reasons that viable and otherwise sound businesses fail is that owners lack financial resources to weather the first difficult months and even years. Starting a freelance  or other home-based enterprise can be a lucrative venture, but it i...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_190837_19.html</link>
<pubDate>24th July 2007</pubDate>
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<title>The Internet Revolution for Writers</title>
<description>It really ought to be a mystery why any right-minded individual would want to earn a living as a writer. Job offers are limited, pay is lousy, editors re-write your articles, and there are fewer and fewer magazines and newspapers buying quality stuff.

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<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_176895_50.html</link>
<pubDate>21st June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>What Writers Must Know About the Internet</title>
<description>From time to time, freelance writers get asked to write for websites. Most of the time, they tackle the assignment as any other, that is, as a work-for-hire arrangement. The writer creates an article and earns a few bucks.

But most writers never ask th...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_172273_50.html</link>
<pubDate>10th June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Secrets of Cyber-Writing</title>
<description>Writers who seek freelance assignments know that the Internet devours a lot of material and creates tons of jobs. Unfortunately, these jobs pay next to nothing and the demand is for speed over accuracy. Good writing is unimportant. In fact, writers who ve...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_169321_50.html</link>
<pubDate>04th June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Why Writers Have to Start Thinking Like Publishers</title>
<description>Writers know they picked a tough profession. Far from being glamorous and exciting, writing on most days can be tough, disappointing, and low-paying. If you're a writer and that describes your current situation--or maybe you're a writer who's on the brink...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_168467_50.html</link>
<pubDate>01st June 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Secrets to Becoming an Informed Patient</title>
<description>Doctors rarely call people anything but patients. If you're seeing a doctor or even thinking about it, you're a patient. And patients are different than people.

For one thing, patients have something wrong with them. It does not matter if it's lung can...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_167031_23.html</link>
<pubDate>30th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>News Flash! Newsletters Still Work!</title>
<description>To a marketer's ears, the word newsletter sounds almost old-fashioned, like a town-crier or a teletype machine. While some technology and approaches do get dated, newsletters are definitely worth a second look.

One reason newsletters are so hot is that...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_164247_15.html</link>
<pubDate>24th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Cure Writer's Block With a Few Sneaky Tricks</title>
<description>Whenever an intelligent person who does not happen to be a writer is asked to write something important, from a term paper to a launch plan or a report, this normally competent person finds himself victim of a condition called writer's block. Writer's blo...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_158436_50.html</link>
<pubDate>11th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>This Mother's Day Let Your Mom Be Your Marketing Focus Group</title>
<description>As Mother's Day approaches, it reminds me of one of the best tests that was ever concocted for patient literature. Patient literature is a generic term for all sorts of content written expressly for healthcare consumers, typically patients themselves and ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_156910_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Medical Advertising: The Good, the Bad, and the Ineffective</title>
<description>Creating a strong business-to-business type of advertisement for a medical product or service is a little like trying to write and design with handcuffs. The medical world is highly regulated, and ads that fail to pass muster simply cannot run. The result...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_155919_15.html</link>
<pubDate>06th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Naming Your New Product</title>
<description>If you've ever held a brainstorming session to come up with new product names, you know that it is usually not hard to get people to attend. In fact, such meetings generally start off with a lot of enthusiasm and elation. This quickly fades though as the ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_155426_15.html</link>
<pubDate>04th May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Patient Education Materials that Work</title>
<description>It is important for healthcare organizations, hospitals, medical organizations, even other organizations dispensing medical and health knowledge to communicate with ordinary people. The demand for medical information on the web is enormous. But while the ...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_154939_23.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>Don't Miss the Opportunity to Brand Manuals</title>
<description>Companies that make complicated products, such as medical device manufacturers, get involved in the business of packaging and explaining these products. Nobody gets excited about writing a manual or designing a box, particularly since most of them are des...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_154507_15.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd May 2007</pubDate>
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<title>The Customer-Centered Brochure</title>
<description>Medical device manufacturers, drug companies, and hospitals spend a lot of time and money writing brochures. High hopes ride on these brochures, but the reality usually turns out to be a disappointment. The brochure fails to accomplish its objective. Even...</description>
<link>http://www.articlealley.com/article_152255_15.html</link>
<pubDate>26th April 2007</pubDate>
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