Word: cardiologist
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...after Hurricane Katrina hit--30 in the past month--raising the death toll to 1,053 in Louisiana. The looters are still working too, brazenly taking their haul in daylight. But at night darkness falls, and it's quiet. "It's spooky out there. There's no life," says cardiologist Pat Breaux, who lives near Pontchartrain with only a handful of neighbors. The destruction, says Breaux, head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, depresses people. Suicides are up citywide, he says, although no one has a handle on the exact number. Murders, on the other hand, have dropped to almost...
...contrast to stem cells taken from a human embryo, they're ethically uncontroversial. And because they're derived from blood, they appear better suited to forming heart and artery tissue. What's more, there's no risk of rejection by the immune system, according to University of Pittsburgh cardiologist Amit Patel, who has collaborated with TheraVitae to treat patients. The process is surprisingly simple. After arriving in Bangkok, the patient has about 250 cc of blood drawn - less than a standard blood donation. This is sent to the company's laboratory in Israel, where stem cells that occur naturally...
...contrast to stem cells taken from a human embryo, they're ethically uncontroversial. And because they're derived from blood, they appear better suited to forming heart and artery tissue. What's more, there's no risk of rejection by the immune system, according to University of Pittsburgh cardiologist Amit Patel, who has collaborated with TheraVitae to treat patients...
...evidence is incontrovertible. Merck [the company that manufactures Vioxx] itself admitted that it found a doubling of heart attack and stroke in Vioxx users in a randomized trial it conducted. That’s why it took the drug off the market.”Gaziano, a cardiologist who has never done Vioxx research, said he feels the evidence is insufficient and that more research is needed.“I don’t believe there is a link for short-term use,” he said in an interview. “Questions have been raised about...
...walk five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked and asked my cardiologist how that could happen after I had been taking so much care. He calmly replied, "Just the way you like to inherit the wealth of your parents, you should be prepared to accept their genes too." I was one of the fortunate ones who was warned in advance. There...