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Mechanical heart pumps may save lives

Scientists at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have suggested that some patients with life-threatening heart failure can be helped by mechanical heart pumps.

As part of their thesis, a total of 99 patients with life-threatening heart failure were treated with a heart pump for short- or long-term circulatory support.

"Two-thirds of these patients survived," said Hans Liden, a researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy and consultant thoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

"A total of around 300 patients have been treated with heart pumps at the hospital over the years - and with good results," Liden added.

Heart pumps for short-term support are used mainly for young and middle-aged patients with acute problems, such as heart attacks.

Heart pumps for long-term support are normally used for patients with chronic heart failure who are so ill that they are not expected to survive the wait - or the operation - for a new heart.

"In the group given short-term support, around half the patients recovered sufficient heart function to be able to return home," said Liden.

Most patients given long-term support have gone on to have heart transplants.

The main finding of the thesis is that this treatment can improve survival among patients with life-threatening heart failure. (ANI)

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On death row in Dubai for 23 yrs, Indian's mercy plea: Hang me now

While India is providing legal help to 17 Indians sentenced to be shot in Sharjah for murdering a Pakistani, in next-door Dubai, a 64-year-old carpenter from Tamil Nadu - forgotten for the past 23 years - is seeking his own quick execution.

Paul George Nadar was sentenced to be hanged by the Dubai Civil Court in July 1987 for killing nine family members of two Pakistanis, who had beaten him up following a fight. He was drunk when he poured an industrial solution on the plywood shanties the families lived in, and set them afire, in 1985. Two women and seven children died.

Then fate intervened - not long after he was sent to the gallows, the UAE did a rethink on executions, which were common at that time. Now only very exceptional cases can get death by hanging. Only six people have been shot or sent to the gallows in the last decade and half. Meanwhile, waiting for execution, Nadar has served the longest time on death row by an Indian in Dubai.

Nadar's family even pleaded, begged, borrowed to mop up the diya (blood money) of 65,000 Dirhams required for the tanseel (no objection to pardon certificate) from the kin of the dead Pakistanis.

The certificate, signed by 14 of them in July 1995, states: "The dependent pardons/forgives the accused Paul George Nadar and demands nothing from him. We also appeal for mercy of the accused in the name of Allah. It is the will of the court to acquit the accused or to award lesser penalty... the dependents have no objection to it."

Inayatallah Rahmatallah and Abdulkadir Bit Mohammed Abdullah, the two Pakistanis who lost their wives and children in the blaze set off by Nadar, also put in a supporting affidavit in the Dubai court, saying they had reconciled with Nadar and his relatives. "We declare that we have surrendered all our personal rights and Paul is innocent from any personal or financial rights... We do not object to alleviating his penalty or taking any measure.... useful for him," they wrote.

But that did not help. Nadar remained on the death row.

As his family tried to secure his release outside, Nadar himself sent mercy petitions, hundreds of them, to everyone he could think of in the Indian Government - the Prime Minister, President, successive Indian ambassadors, politicians, social workers - and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. The last of his mercy petitions was handed over by Paul's daughter to ousted External Affairs minister Shashi Tharoor a year ago, when he visited the UAE.

Nadar says no one ever responded. "My mind had snapped for a moment. This resulted in the death of those Pakistani families," he had said in one of his petitions to Dubai's ruler.

Indian Consulate officials in Dubai say they have been forwarding his mercy petitions to the concerned, but his release would need no less than a special order from Dubai's ruler. Dubai court documents show his last appeal was heard on January 27, 2009, and his last mercy petition rejected on February 17, 2009.

If his plea for an early execution is not heard, Nadar is likely to stay in jail till he dies - in what has come to be the practice now. There are 23 prisoners like Nadar in the jail, while the last actual execution in Dubai was carried out in 2002.

Nadar says he realises he doesn't "deserve to be free". However, he pleads that mercy be shown to him so that he can at least see the world outside once and meet his family, especially his father, one last time "before I die". Nadar's father Michael Das is now about 100 years old; they last saw each other around 28 years ago.

His brother Sebastian Paul - with whom he ran a carpentry workshop in Ferj Murar area of Dubai at the time he was arrested - says their bedridden father still opens his eyes and tries to sit up whenever he hears a visitor at their village home in Tamil Nadu. "When he realises it is not Paul, he starts weeping."

Nadar's son Subba Rajan, three years' old at the time he was arrested, is now 27 and an engineer working in Dubai. His daughter Sumithra Gerald, who was 10 when he went to jail, married and moved to Sharjah, and now stays just a few kilometres away from Nadar's jail.

Abdul Naser, an Indian social worker from the Kerala Youth and Cultural Club (KYCC), who accompanies Indian Consulate officials on their visits to the jail, has been seeing Nadar regularly for the past three years. Last year, he took special permission so that Nadar's wife, now 55, could come to Dubai to visit him. They saw each other after 22 years. "They met in the prison yard," says Naser. "And the two spent most of the allowed time weeping."

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Switzerland stuns Spain 1-0 in World Cup

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -- The World Cup needed a jolt. Switzerland provided it.

Gelson Fernandes scored on a rare Swiss attack, giving his team a stunning 1-0 upset Wednesday over European champion and tournament favorite Spain.

The loss ended Spain's run of 12 straight wins and handed the Spanish just their second loss in 50 games -- the other was to the United States at the Confederations Cup in South Africa last year.

It also provided a thrill at a tournament that has seen few surprises and just 25 goals after the first game for all 32 teams.

"To be fair, I'm not used to scoring goals, so I was a bit surprised," said Fernandes, who got just his second in international play. "It was a bit of luck."

And tenacity. Eren Derdiyok created Switzerland's big chance in the 52nd minute by surging through the center of Spain's defense and rounding Iker Casillas. Gerard Pique's desperate tackle stopped Derdiyok, but Fernandes pounced on the loose ball and forced it into the net.

"It's just a special moment," he said.

Spain badly outshot the Swiss and held the ball 63 percent of the time, but could find no way through Switzerland's determined defense.

"Today wasn't our day," Spain coach Vicente del Bosque said. "We have two games ahead of us. We have to find a way to win them."

It won't be a gimme. Well-regarded Chile beat Honduras 1-0 in the other Group H opener Wednesday.

The win was Switzerland's first over Spain.

At the final whistle, Fernandes fell to his knees and raised both arms to the sky. The entire team then went to the small section of Swiss fans in the Moses Mabhida Stadium and saluted them as they cheered and rang alpine cow bells.

"These were three unexpected points," Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld said before defending his team's defensive play as the only way to nullify Spain.

"If you play an attacking game against Spain, you'll lose and suffer one goal after the next," he said.

History was not on Spain's side: Only two of the last eight reigning European champions had won their opening match at the World Cup -- France in 1986 and Germany in 1998. And Spain has not advanced past the World Cup quarterfinals since its best finish of fourth in 1950.

Derdiyok nearly doubled the Swiss lead in the 75th minute when he shrugged off Carlos Puyol's tackle and poked the ball past Casillas only to see the shot rebound off the post.

Spain was lifted before the kickoff by the return of Andres Iniesta, but the Barcelona midfielder could not provide the spark to ignite his country's attack. He was taken out in the 77th minute after a crunching tackle from Stephan Lichtsteiner.

Del Bosque brought on Liverpool striker Fernando Torres in the 62nd minute, but he, too, could find no way through the Swiss wall of defenders.

Midfielder Xabi Alonso came closest to equalizing when his powerful drive in the 70th minute slammed into the crossbar.

David Villa was Spain's most dangerous forward, but the top scorer from the European Championships in 2008 repeatedly saw his efforts blocked or go wide.

Villa got by Lichtsteiner in the 10th minute, but goalkeeper Diego Benaglio dived at his feet to snuff out the chance. Then his free kick deflected wide off the wall after Stephane Grichting pulled down Iniesta just outside the penalty area.

With Spain's forwards sputtering, it was center back Gerard Pique who came closest to breaking the stalemate when Iniesta's through ball in the 24th minute set him free and he fired low -- only to see Benaglio save the shot.

"He's a world class keeper with one-on-one situations," Hitzfeld said. "He was decisive to our win."

Fernandes put it even more simply. "We defend very well," he said.

The numbers back him up.

Switzerland was knocked out of the last World Cup on penalty kicks by Ukraine in the round of 16 without conceding a goal in the tournament and has now gone 490 minutes in World Cup play without being scored upon.