Word: cardiac
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Upon his return to Boston in November, Koski will serve as a full-time cardiac anesthesiologist...
...lawsuit accuses the hospitals of unlawfully charging the government for medical procedures that used experimental cardiac devices that had not been proven safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration...
...heart attack later on, while coronary patients who become severely depressed are three times as likely to develop further heart problems or die. Yet doctors often seem reluctant to treat depression in their heart-attack patients for fear that anti-depressant drugs might interfere with the lifesaving benefits of cardiac medications...
...seem to make a heart condition worse and might even help to improve it. Researchers from the U.S., Canada, Italy and Sweden reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that sertraline, better known by the trade name Zoloft, caused no more complications in depressed cardiac patients than did a placebo. Indeed, patients on Zoloft experienced 20% fewer adverse cardiovascular events than those who took the placebo. One other advantage: unlike older antidepressants called tricyclics, Zoloft does not seem to cause irregular heartbeats. But the study, paid for by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, maker of Zoloft, included...
...former curator of Harvard’s prestigious journalism foundation, known for his advocacy of engagement with Communist China and his support of women in journalism, died Sunday of cardiac arrest...