Snow was piled high around Ken Fleit’s Silver Spring, Md., home during the 2010 storm that came to be known as Snowmageddon. Banks of it towered on either side of his driveway. He had run out of places to put it as he shoveled hour after hour.
The man had been using the device to help him quit smoking.
Stem cells grown from patients’ own cardiac tissue can heal damage once thought to be permanent after a heart attack, according to a study that suggests the experimental approach may one day help stave off heart failure.

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