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FIXING A BROKEN HEART

People often say that it takes time to heal a broken heart, and when it comes to cardiac medicine, they aren’t wrong. Before 1896 scholars and scientists had a good idea of the form and function of the human heart. However, the ability to surgically repair a damaged organ

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