Word: cardiologist
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...research, experts, if pressed, will admit that the research is woefully inadequate. Most of the controlled studies on estrogen therapy have been short-term and can shed no light on long-term risks. "I think the currently available data are extrapolated to excess with respect to heart disease," complains cardiologist David Herrington of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
...Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee voted 9-7 to recommendconfirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as surgeon general. The favorable vote included two committee Republicans: James Jeffords of Vermont and Bill Frist of Tennessee, a cardiologist who waited until minutes before the vote to publicly support the fellow Tennessean he has known for years. Now,TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumultynotes, Foster has to circumnavigate a promised filibuster by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), who has made the nominationan issue in his presidential campaign. With Frist's support, Foster now has 52 votes -- eight short of the number needed to block...
Nadal-Ginard had served as cardiologist-in-chief at Children's Hospital since 1982, as well as director of the Medical School's M.D.-Ph.D. program and president of the Boston Children's Heart Foundation (BCHF...
...doctor charged that Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '46 and Children's Hospital's new Chief Cardiologist James E. Lock had been particularly aggressive in their attempts to push...
...company that still hasn't applied to the FDA for permission to test it in the U.S. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who mistakenly believed they could test the device without FDA approval, conducted some early trials in a hospital environment. The device seemed promising, but cardiologist Michael Callaham, who oversaw the trials, says later field tests on 859 patients "unfortunately showed the pump to be of absolutely no benefit." The FDA stopped the study, says Callaham, "but we talked with them about it for five months, during which time we went ahead with our trials...