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...least that's what doctors used to think. But Dr. Paul Ridker has changed that and the way doctors treat heart disease. A cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he has spent the past decade exposing an alliance between the infection-fighting immune system and heart disease that could finally explain one of the biggest health puzzles in recent decades: If cholesterol is such a major contributor to the nation's No. 1 killer, why do half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels...
...real campaign speech of the season to Republican Governors, he invited five of them back to the White House for dinner and a chance to spend the night in the presidential mansion. Over a batter-dipped feast in his private dining room that would have given Dick Cheney's cardiologist the bends--fried shrimp, fried onion rings, corn on the cob, French fries, cole slaw and cheesecake--Bush was jovial, confident. He told the group--George Pataki of New York, Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Jim Douglas of Vermont and his Floridian brother Jeb--that the presidential...
...neck; another had liposuction and a fat transfer; and two, liposuction and tummy tuck. Citing an "immediate danger to public health," the board issued a 90-day moratorium on the two procedures being performed together in a nonhospital setting. A 54-year-old woman, the wife of a cardiologist, died of complications from plastic surgery last week while undergoing a procedure at one of New York City's most prestigious hospitals, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, run by Sherrell Aston, husband of socialite Muffie Potter Aston. This is the same location where last month, in a case that...
...rumble started anew when Richard Fleming, a cardiologist in Omaha, Neb., who opposes the Atkins regimen, somehow got the New York City medical examiner's office to send him Atkins' confidential medical report. Such reports are meant to be given only to the next of kin or a physician who has treated the patient. Fleming, who was neither, handed the records to a pro-vegetarian group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization that opposes the meat-loving Atkins movement so vehemently it has a website called atkins diet alert.org The committee then sent the medical examiner...
This new view of inflammation is changing the way some scientists do medical research. "Virtually our entire R.-and-D. effort is [now] focused on inflammation and cancer," says Dr. Robert Tepper, president of research and development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass. In medical schools across the U.S., cardiologists, rheumatologists, oncologists, allergists and neurologists are all suddenly talking to one another - and they're discovering that they're looking at the same thing. The speed with which researchers are jumping on the inflammation bandwagon is breathtaking. Just a few years ago, "nobody was interested in this stuff," says...