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Wally Wawro first noticed the symptoms in 1990, when he was 39. The Dallas television audio specialist was working a project in Palm Springs, California, when he came down with what felt like a nagging cold. Four months later, he found himself gaining weight, feeling constantly run-down, and short of breath. "I thought it was something like bronchial pneumonia," he recalls. He decided to see his physician, who, with just one look at Wawro's chest X-ray, had a diagnosis: congestive heart failure (CHF). Relatively obscure thirty years ago, CHF is a condition that used to affect some 250,000 people in the nation a year. But as our population has begun to live longer, that figure has more than doubled. And as millions more boomers approach their sixties, its incidence is set to increase another 40 percent by 2010. CHF is poised to become our next buzzword. Fortunately for us--and Wawro--some of the most promising innovations for treating the disease are right here in Texas.

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Wawro didn't know much about this pervasive yet little-understood condition, and neither do most Americans. Some variation of a heart...

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