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Until late august. in the middle box more than 100 people trapped in china after heavy rains caused landslides in the southwestern part of the country, 200 people were killed in the flooding, millions more forced out of their homes. in the bottom box, former vice president cheney is expected to leave the hospital today. he was admitted on friday. hes been receiving i.v. medications to treat a fluid buildup related to his heart disease. jon: we are awaiting the confirmation hearings of suprem...

I dont understand why they dont have technology that tracks this stuff more accurately. >> its funny because president clinton talked about that before his first operation in 2004. he talked about whether he should be aggressive about getting angiograms or ct angiograms. its difficult. its one of those things if you screen 10,000 people youre not going to find people that have significant disease. >> the problem with ct angiograms is the radiation is incredibly high. >> there are risks to proced...

Going to find that many people who have significant disease. >> the problem with ct angiograms is the radiation is incredibly high. they put out studies about that. >> there are risks to procedures that would diagnose this thing. its a risk/benefit sort of thing. what was interesting about that interview, it was sort of the first time he really talked about the fact the operation, itself, did have impact on him. he really said he was doing fine. he felt great afterwards. admitted, it discombobul...

>> larry: what about the second surgery? >> 10% of people who have this surgery as you know have some fluid buildup. >> larry: i didnt have that. >> only 10% do. most of them, the fluid either goes away or you just inject a need in your side with local anesthetic and you take it out. you basically suction it out. less than 1% of the cases people with a particular suspeceptibily to inflammation, like when i took motrin for six weeks for the pain after it was over. when you stop taking it the infl...

>> paul, did you see that difference? >> big-time, anderson. i think frankly his friends and family maybe saw it more than the public did. he had to have a second operation, sanjays familiar with this, because of fluid buildup, not common in bypass operations. >> that was six months after the bypass operation. >> that procedure was enormously painful for him. enormously. the recovery took an awfully long time. it took, i think, quite a long time. hes fine now. i saw him a couple months ago and h...

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A few weeks ago, it became clear i was entering a new phase of the disease when i began experiencing increasing congestive heart failure. after a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, i decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available and have a left ventricular assist device implanted. the lvad is a small implantable pump that improves heart function and will enable me to resume an active life." mr. cheney has suffered coronary disease for more than 30 years....

A few weeks ago, it became clear i was entering a new phase of the disease when i began experiencing increasing congestive heart failure. after a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, i decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available and have a left ventricular assist device implanted. the lvad is a small implantable pump that improves heart function and will enable me to resume an active life." mr. cheney has suffered coronary disease for more than 30 years....

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