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...height of McCarthyism, Stare won notoriety for hiring Bernard Lown, a cardiologist who had been accused of holding communist sympathies. Lown went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 as one of the leaders of a group opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons...
...very short (.00001 sec.) bursts of much lower current. Every time there has been a fatality, the victim was either drugged or suffering from pre-existing medical conditions that made it hard to determine a cause of death. At TIME's request, Dr. Patrick Tchou, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, reviewed the few existing scientific studies on stun guns and concluded there is "some potential for causing harm, such as an irregular heartbeat" that could lead to death...
...watching a basketball game at home. I had this stinging pain in my arm and a cold sweat. I saw my doctor the next day. He said, "Angiogram immediately." He and the surgeon and the cardiologist all look at it and say, "It's a mess. You've got six months to live if you don't do anything, meaning surgery. Let's go." I said, "What are the odds?" He said, "Very good--about 8 or 9 to 1." I said, "O.K., I like the odds...
Vivius lets patients construct their personal provider networks with 22 specialists, from a primary-care physician to a cardiologist. HealthAllies provides a wide selection of discounted services not typically covered, from laser surgery and acupuncture to vision care and in-vitro fertilization. MyHealthBank, which has partnered with Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield to focus on small employers in the Northwest, hopes eventually to offer consumers a debit card to have their visits to the doctor automatically paid out of their accounts. In such a competitive market, says Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, doctors will finally offer services that consumers really...
Merck and Pharmacia were convinced that their medications had a better side-effect profile and submitted additional data to an FDA advisory panel last February. But the extra information raised new red flags for Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who was consulted by the FDA. Nissen noticed what seemed like a high number of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems in the companies' data. Together with Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Debabrata Mukherjee, Nissen decided to look into the matter further...