Study: Bypass boosts survival in patients with heart failure

Study: Bypass boosts survival in patients with heart failure

CHICAGO

Heart-failure patients with clogged arteries have a better chance of surviving 10 years if they get bypass surgery plus medicine rather than just drugs alone, according to an international study.

Earlier results from the same research raised questions about the benefits of bypass versus medicine alone, but researchers say the long-term evidence clearly favors the surgery.

The 10-year results were published online Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at an American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago.

WWII vet awarded 5 medals for service

HERMISTON, ORE.

A 92-year-old Oregon man has been honored for his military service 70 years after he returned home from World War II.

The East Oregonian reported that William Jones on Saturday was presented with five medals including a Presidential Citation, Good Conduct Medal, campaign medals for the American and Euro-African-Middle-Eastern campaigns and the World War II Victory Medal.

Jones says he didn’t apply for the medals after returning to the U.S. in 1945 because he believed he would be reassigned to Japan. When that conflict ended, he forgot about metals as he slipped back into civilian life.

Jones’s niece applied for the medals for him.

Crow Tribe elder dies

BILLINGS, MONT.

Joseph Medicine Crow, an acclaimed Native American historian and last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, has died. He was 102.

Medicine Crow died Sunday, Bullis Mortuary funeral home director Terry Bullis said. Services will be announced today, he said.

A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Medicine Crow was raised by his grandparents in a log house in a rural area of the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Mont.

His Crow name was “High Bird,” and he recalled listening as a child to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn from those who were there, including his grandmother’s brother, White Man Runs Him, a scout for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

Deportation of migrants will begin

ATHENS, GREECE

An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect this morning, but the operation is threatened by a shortage of personnel.

Frontex, the EU’s border management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the deal, but has less than one-tenth of the 2,300 officers that it needs to do the job.

The agency relies on the EU’s 28 member states to provide translators and other officials to process asylum seekers, but these have not been forthcoming, even as the continent faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Driver survives cliff crash, is hit by bus

MALIBU, CALIF.

Los Angeles County authorities say a driver who managed to get out of his SUV after it nearly went over a cliff was then struck by a passing bus in Malibu.

Sheriff’s officials say the man was conscious and breathing when he was rushed to a hospital after the two crashes Saturday.

Investigators say the man lost control of his SUV, which slammed into a guardrail and hung precariously over the side of the cliff. Officials say the man was disoriented and when he got out of the vehicle he stepped into lanes of traffic and was struck by a tour bus.

Associated Press