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...while on the drugs and dozens of cases of stroke and arrhythmias, but cause and effect are far from certain. Those are small numbers given that 2.5 million kids and 1.5 million adults in the U.S. take the drugs, but some panel members think many cases may go unreported. Cardiologist Steven Nissen, who proposed the warning, is worried about adults on the drugs, 10% of whom are over 50 and may have other risk factors for heart trouble...
...meeting took an unexpected turn when cardiologist Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic made a motion for a black box warning. Dr. Nissen, who was among the early warners on the risks of the now-withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx, was concerned that the 25 cases might be just the tip of an iceberg. "There's no mandatory reporting of these cases," he says. He notes that the stimulants in question are known to raise blood pressure and heart rate. "Raising blood pressure of a child or adult continuously over many years worries me," Nissen told TIME. "There is a linear...
Enter Dr. Michael Barrett, 57, of Temple University in Philadelphia. A cardiologist by training, Barrett started playing with his new CD burner a few years ago and got to thinking that maybe the way medical schools teach their students to use the stethoscope is all wrong. Typically, he says, students attend a basic lecture and listen to a couple of practice recordings, then they're on their own. The cardiologist suspected that they needed more repetition for their brains to assimilate the patterns dependably...
Cornell University named a cardiologist, David J. Skorton, as the school’s next president on Saturday, concluding a search touched off by the abrupt resignation of Jeffrey Lehman in June...
...that Pfizer announced this week that it is going to try to settle the cox-2 safety question once and for all. Working with cardiologist Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, Pfizer has initiated a massive $100 million, four-year trial that will test the drug on 20,000 arthritis patients who are already at high risk for heart attack or stroke to determine what risk, if any, Celebrex actually poses...