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More than 30 years later, Ridker's name appears regularly in the NEJM and many other medical publications. Today he is a cardiologist at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and one of the world's leading experts on arterial inflammation, an immune-system reaction that is the most powerful contributor after cholesterol to heart attacks. A variation on the immune response that causes everything from arthritis to sinus infections, inflammation in the arteries turns out to be as dangerous for the heart as high cholesterol levels in the blood. "Inflammation has really changed our whole outlook on heart...
Three other Boston area researchers were honored, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiologist Paul Ridker, MIT biomedical engineer Robert Langer, and MIT cell death specialist H. Robert Horvitz...
...news conference following the procedure, the Vice President's doctors pronounced the operation a success and declared his prognosis "terrific." "This really is an insurance policy for him," said Cheney's cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner. "It is very, very likely he will never use this device." Cheney must avoid vigorous upper-body exercise until his incision heals. After that, the only effect on his lifestyle should be that he'll need to use cell phones on the right side of his body to minimize the chance of electronic interference...
Ibrahim Hajimi is not, it turns out, just another Palestinian child. His father Hassan is a charismatic firebrand currently in detention in Jerusalem for suspected terrorist acts. And the boy's maternal grandfather is George Raad, a Boston cardiologist and internationally known Palestinian advocate. The death of a little boy so prominently connected offers a chance for some effective anti-Israel propaganda. To neutralize that very thing, Colonel Daniel Yizhar of West Bank security briefs Lieutenant Doron on what will be the official army version of the checkpoint episode. The story is mostly accurate but omits, Doron notes, the long...
According to Jagmeet P. Singh, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, invasive surgery will become a rare form of treatment in the future because of genetic-based preventative medicine and improved non-invasive techniques...