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From a career standpoint, Donaldson, 68, needs this job like an attack of angina. He's a walking legend on Wall Street and founding dean of Yale University's business school. He's been on Aetna's board since 1977, and insists that he's boss for the long haul: "I want to take a fresh look at this business and not be locked into old thinking...
ERROR IN THE E.R. If you go to the emergency room with chest pains, will doctors know you're having a heart attack or just figure it's last night's burrito? A study shows that E.R. physicians correctly diagnose and hospitalize patients for heart attack and unstable angina fully 98% of the time. Still, that leaves 26,000 patients who are erroneously sent home. What's more, doctors are more likely to err in diagnoses of women under 55, African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities...
VIAGRA, UP OR DOWN? A confusing week for Viagra users. Preliminary analysis of cases reported to the FDA has found 1,500 heart attacks, arrhythmias and strokes--some fatal--in men who popped the impotence pill. Particularly troubling, most of the guys probably weren't on nitrates for angina or hypertension. (Nitrates are a no-no when taking Viagra.) Scary? Another study--financed by Pfizer, Viagra's maker--concludes that heart problems from the drug are rare, at least among low-risk men. If you're at all worried, check with your doc before checking out Viagra...
...precaution: folks with congestive heart failure, unstable angina or very high blood pressure (above 160/100) should stay out of the weight room. If you are generally healthy, however, you can begin training immediately--as long you don't go overboard...
...result, there is still no objective evidence that angiogenesis therapy improves blood flow to the heart. Yet all other signs indicate that something good is happening. Patients experience much less chest pain, or angina, and can run much longer on a treadmill. Although encouraging, such quality-of-life reports are not enough to convince other doctors, not to mention the Food and Drug Administration, that the treatment is effective. Researchers are confident, however, that improvements in imaging technology will soon allow them to detect the presence of the new blood vessels that they believe are there...