Word: cardiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
Surgeons in the U.S. implant about 100,000 new pacemakers each year, at an average cost of $12,000. Last week Cardiologist Allan Greenspan of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center charged that the implantations are often useless. In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, he concluded that more than half the pacemaker operations he studied were either unnecessary or of questionable need. Concluded Greenspan: "Not all physicians who prescribe pacemakers know as much about the subject as they should...
Young established a second panel, which based its decision on two new studies showing that the heart's ability to pump blood increases after administration of t-PA. This indicates the drug can limit damage during a heart attack. However, says Harvard Cardiologist Eugene Braunwald, t-PA "has to be given within four to six hours after symptoms occur...
...many heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. After three years of treatment, that fraction dropped to less than half. "This is the largest decrease in coronary disease seen in any trial," said Heikki Frick, a University of Helsinki scientist who took over the study in 1986 after its originator, Cardiologist Esko Nikkila, died in an auto accident...
After two years, X rays showed that life-threatening plaque had started to melt away in 16.2% of the treated patients, vs. 2.4% in the control group. The results were so dramatic that some health professionals called for routine anticholesterol drug treatment after bypass surgery. Cardiologist Blankenhorn, who was one of the 162 subjects of the study, demurred: "Drugsalone are not enough. People are still going to have to change to a healthier life-style...