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(i) BBC - 31st January, 2005; (ii) CNN - 3rd February, 2005; (iii) European Heart Journal, 1994 (15), 882
887; (iv) American Heart Journal, 1999 (137), 512 - 515; (v) British Medical Journal, 2000 (320), 218 -
219 and 23rd December, 2000; (vi) yoursite.com - 2nd March, 2005; (vii) freep.com - 30th January, 2001;
(viii) Canada’s National News Paper on 28th January, 2003; (ix) Sydney Morning Head Lines – on 19th
February, 2004.