Tag: Eugene Braunwald

  • Health

    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 factors for arteriosclerosis has prompted ongoing research to find additional markers that will help clinicians identify and then stop progression of cardiovascular disease. Specifically, chlamydia…

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  • Campus & Community

    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 treatment. The new therapy adds a fourth drug to the three-drug regimen that is frequently prescribed after a heart attack to break up clots that…

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