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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. [3]
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty—a field of practice based on the knowledge and skills required to prevent, diagnose, and manage acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders.
As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. J. Willis Hurst: 1920 2011 United States Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh: 1929: Macedonia [22] Yariv Khaykin: Canada [23] John Kjekshus: 1936: Norway
KFF Health News found records of Abbott payments associated with 10 of the 14 voting members of the FDA advisory panel, which was weighing clinical evidence for a heart device called TriClip G4 ...
A doctor visiting an elderly patient, near San Antonio, Texas, in May 1973. A house call is medical consultation performed by a doctor or other healthcare professionals visiting the home of a patient or client, [1] instead of the patient visiting the doctor's clinic or hospital. In some locations, families used to pay dues to a particular ...
The most common cause of heart attack is coronary artery disease (CAD), which happens when plaque builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart. It is possible to have COVID-19 and ...
1 in 5 people have this genetic risk factor for heart disease—and most have no idea because doctors rarely test for it Beth Greenfield Updated December 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM
The Doctors is a daily American syndicated talk show featuring medical advice.It debuted on September 8, 2008, and aired until August 8, 2022. [2] [3] The hour-long daytime program is produced by Phil McGraw and his son Jay McGraw and is distributed domestically and globally by CBS Media Ventures.