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Although the chairman of the Department of Medicine, Dr Eugene Braunwald, immediately notified BWH and Med School officials and Darsee's Harvard. BWH and NIH fellowships were terminated no Med School or NIH guidelines for notification of the NIH existed at the time and the NIH were not informed of the misconduct...
...ahead. Sophisticated new machines allow doctors to "see" a patient's heart without surgery. Major strides have been made in understanding how the heart works and why disease occurs. These in turn have led to breakthroughs in the operating theater and the drug research laboratory. Says Cardiologist Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel in Boston: "There's been more done in cardiology research in the past ten years than in its entire previous history." Roman DeSanctis of Massachusetts General Hospital terms it "one succession of miracles after another...
...heart's workings. The electrical stimulation and subsequent contraction of the heart muscle are both partially governed by the flow of calcium ions into the muscle cells. Because of this, drugs that inhibit the flow of calcium ions have attracted intense interest. Declares Boston's Braunwald: "Calcium blockers are not just another class of drugs that has come along. They lower blood pressure, they raise cardiac output in heart failure, they are effective in arrhythmias. They are also useful for angina. They're almost too good to be true...
They are a greater threat when the arteries are already narrowed. "There are probably some patients with pure atherosclerosis, and some with pure coronary artery spasm," says Braunwald, "but I suspect the majority of patients have both...
Although King said that most heads of hospitals in the Boston area have held their posts for at least five years, Braunwald said that Petersdorf's leaving after less than two years should not hurt the hospital's administration...