Once, serious abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah) required open-heart surgery to treat. 1  Fortunately, this is rarely the case today. Thanks to advances in medicines and medical devices, there are now safer and much more comfortable treatment options for abnormal heart rhythms.
Rhododendron /ËroÊdÉËdÉndrÉn/ (from Ancient Greek á¿¥ÏÎ´Î¿Î½ rhÃ³don rose and Î´Î­Î½Î´ÏÎ¿Î½ dÃ©ndron tree) is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the Southern Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
Azaleas make up two subgenera of Rhododendron. They are distinguished from true rhododendrons by having only five anthers per flower. The Purple Rhododendron of Washington State is the state flower. It grows naturally all over Western Washington.he Rhododendron genus is the largest of the genera in the Ericaceae family, with 1,024 species, though estimates vary from 850-1000 depending on the authority used, (Fayaz 2012) and is morphologically diverse.