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LOUIS J. IGNARRO, PH.D. CENTER FOR VASCULAR BIOLOGY DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLA Los Angeles...
...make this point as emphatically as possible, the NHLBI labels the borderline pressure range "prehypertension," a mildly alarming term that was chosen for precisely that reason. "We convened focus groups; presented them terms such as high normal, borderline and abnormal vascular response; and asked them which would get across the idea that they had to take action," says Bakris. "Ninety-eight percent said prehypertension would...
...surgeons are threatening to spend a week in self-imposed exile in London starting on Aug. 30, during which time they'll invite recruiters from British hospitals to their protest meetings. "Our goal is to get France to realize how undervalued our profession is," says Dr. Philippe Cuq, a vascular surgeon from Toulouse who heads Surgeons of France, the 3,000-member organization behind the protest. "Young doctors aren't going into surgery. Why should they when they can earn twice as much working as radiologists, without midnight emergency calls and malpractice lawsuits?" The surgeons' immediate complaint is about money...
...great news for the company's new president and chief operating officer, William Hawkins, 50. Hawkins, an avid Duke University basketball fan, knows his competition; he has also worked for Eli Lilly, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson. The challenge for the biomedical engineer and former head of Medtronic's vascular business will be to keep the company hitting nothing but net. Next up on Hawkins' game plan: overseeing the launch of its first drug-coated cardiac stent in Europe later this year...
Pasternak--who may have been persuaded to testify after federal investigators quizzed her vascular surgeon ex-husband about selling his ImClone stock the day after Stewart sold hers--appeared cool and unruffled as she ratted on her former friend. Stewart, during the testimony, mostly avoided eye contact and scribbled notes. This week she'll be back in court--without her friend--as the defense makes its case...