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  • August 2008

    • Man Steals Identity to Fund Heart Surgery

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 22, 08 11:30 AM CDT

      Man Steals Identity to Fund Heart Surgery

      (Newser) - A Chicago man allegedly nicked the identity of a mentally disabled friend to fund a $350,000 heart bypass operation, say police. John Parsons, 57, was sure he would die without the surgery, said a relative; the alleged scam was uncovered after a caregiver began receiving copies of expenses billed to the man's Medicaid account. Mental-health advocates condemned the incident, while some remain confused by the case. More »

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      Chicago  • identity theft  • health care costs  • Medicaid  • heart surgery

    • Yaz OK After Triple Bypass

      Boston Herald  |  Aug 19, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Yaz OK After Triple Bypass

      (Newser) - Red Sox Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski underwent heart bypass surgery today after going to the hospital for chest pains, reports the Boston Herald. The beloved Yaz, who turns 69 on Friday, had a triple bypass and "everything's fine," said spokesman at Mass General. "The operation was a success." More »

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      baseball  • Boston Red Sox  • Baseball Hall of Fame  • heart surgery  • baseball's triple crown

  • July 2008

    • A Medical Frontier: 100-Year-Olds In Surgery

      New York Times  |  Jul 18, 08 7:45 AM CDT

      A Medical Frontier: 100-Year-Olds In Surgery

      (Newser) - Life expectancy in the United States keeps rising: more than 90,000 Americans have celebrated a 100th birthday, and experts foresee more than 1 million centenarians by 2050. As lifespans have grown, so too have medical efforts to treat the very old, from hip replacements to chemotherapy. But as the New York Times reports, the medical community is divided over both the efficacy and the ethics of surgery for the "late elderly." More »

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      health care  • surgery  • elderly  • aging  • heart surgery  • geriatric medicine  • centenarians

    • Michael DeBakey Dead at 99

      Houston Chronicle  |  Jul 12, 08 7:25 AM CDT

      Michael DeBakey Dead at 99

      (Newser) - Michael DeBakey, the pioneering heart doctor considered to be the father of modern cardiovascular surgery,  died last night at 99 in Houston, the Houston Chronicle reports.  During his long career, DeBakey operated on some 60,000 patients, including figures like Russian president Boris Yeltsin, trained thousands of surgeons, and developed key surgical procedures and devices still used today. More »

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      obituary  • physician  • surgeon  • heart surgery

  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • FDA Delay Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

      CBS  |  Feb 15, 08 7:53 AM CST

      FDA Delay Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

      (Newser) - A prominent researcher who revealed widespread fatalities associated with the heart surgery drug Trasylol says 22,000 people died because of the FDA's delay in blowing the whistle on the drug after his study was published. Drugmaker Bayer also failed to disclose negative results of its own study. In a 60 Minutes interview to air Sunday, Dr. Dennis Mangano says the FDA waited more than a year to pull Trasylol—until after it was banned in Germany. More »

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      FDA  • pharmaceutical companies  • heart surgery  • Trasylol  • Bayer Pharmaceuticals  • kidney failure

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