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Tag: Christopher Cannon
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Antibiotics do not prevent heart attacks; New findings from the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 clinical trial
Christopher P. Cannon, M.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, noted that the fact that many patients do not exhibit identifiable risk…
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Nation & World
New drug therapy cuts risk of second heart attack
Harvard researchers have found a new treatment for heart attack that provides greater hope for the roughly one in four patients whose heart arteries remain blocked even after standard drug…
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Nation & World
Handheld calculator measures risk of heart attack
When a patient goes to a hospital emergency room with worsening chest pain, doctors must quickly decide whether that person should be given medication and sent home, or whether he…