Word: cardiologist
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Could the "togetherness" and reduction of stress account for at least part of that remarkable reversal? Some experts think so. They point to studies that associate a sense of isolation with increased risk of many illnesses, including heart disease. And at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson is studying the biochemical effects of stress on the body...
...study.) The finding: these coffee drinkers were no more susceptible to strokes or heart attacks than anybody else. The results could ease the minds of the 100 million or so Americans who drink an average of 3 1/2 cups a day. "This is a very important study," says cardiologist Francois Abboud, president of the American Heart Association. "From a public-health standpoint, we cannot advise people to stop drinking coffee...
Some fitness centers have begun to work cooperatively with physicians and hospitals. A cardiologist from the University of Minnesota is a consultant to the Marsh club in Minnetonka, Minn. Chicago's East Bank Club is affiliated with the University of Chicago Hospitals Physician Group and plans to set up a sports-medicine facility staffed by orthopedists from Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Last month at Boston's Le Pli Enterprises, cosmetic surgeons began offering laser treatments for broken capillaries...
...side effects were apparently a problem for Gathers, whose prolific scoring and rebounding started to fall off. He complained to his coach that the dosage was too high, and is said to have persuaded his doctors to lower it. But according to a cardiologist familiar with the case, Gathers skipped his stress-test appointment the week before his death and may have stopped taking his medication altogether -- an omission that could have increased the risk of heart failure. "He was told not to play," the unnamed doctor said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We told Hank that...