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US Senate Clears Way for Vote on Califf FDA Nomination Today's cloture vote on the confirmation process for Dr Robert Califf as FDA chief clears holds and a threatened filibuster, making way for a final vote scheduled for later this week.
News, February 22, 2016
Senate Panel Votes Unanimously to Back Califf as FDA Chief After the Senate HELP Committee's vote for nomination approval, Dr Robert Califf will face a full Senate vote at a later date, which is yet to be determined.
News, January 12, 2016
Dr Robert Califf Nominated for FDA Commissioner Dr Califf has long been speculated to be in the running for the agency's top job. He was named deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco in February, following a distinguished career in medicine at Duke University.
News, September 15, 2015
Richard Ross, Longtime Johns Hopkins Cardiologist, Dies at 91 Ross oversaw an expansion of faculty and research funding at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine during his 15-year tenure as dean. He is also known for evaluating Richard Nixon's health before the Watergate hearings.
News, August 14, 2015
Argentinian Cardiologist Dr Liliana Grinfeld Dies at 71 A pioneer in interventional cardiology, and the first female in Argentina to put in a stent, Dr Grinfeld passed away at age 71 after a long illness, according to media reports.
News, June 04, 2015
Dr Levi Watkins, Heart Surgeon, Civil Rights Figure, Dies at Age 70 Denied entrance into the University of Alabama medical school because he was black, Dr Watkins later helped open the doors to black students and other minorities looking to study medicine.
News, April 22, 2015
Elijah Saunders, 'Visionary' on Hypertension in Blacks, Dead at 80 Advocate for cardiovascular care in black patients, Dr Elijah Saunders died last week. Colleagues say his passion was teaching about the "silent killer" of hypertension.
News, April 14, 2015
John Laragh, Hypertension-Therapy Pioneer, Dead at 90 His seminal discoveries involving the renin-angiotensin system helped shape the modern understanding of hypertension and its pharmacologic treatments.
News, March 25, 2015
NFL Drafts Dr Betsy Nabel for Chief Medical Advisor The league is currently under a lot of scrutiny to increase the safety of the game. Nabel, a football fan, says she wants to create the safest possible environment for NFL players.
News, February 10, 2015
George W Bush Gets a Stent There are as yet no details about the conditions and/or symptoms that led to Bush receiving the stent, but he was treated successfully today in Dallas, TX, for a coronary blockage.
News, August 06, 2013
Kentucky Doc Admits to Falsifying Patient Data Dr Sandesh Rajaram Patil, who practiced at St Joseph's Hospital, admitted that he lied about the severity of coronary disease and submitted this false data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to receive payment for the procedure.
News, June 07, 2013
Kenneth Mahaffey Quits DCRI for Stanford Mahaffey is the second Duke physician to head to Stanford in the past two years, following in the footsteps of Dr Robert Harrington.
News, May 16, 2013
Dr Allen Anderson Joins Northwestern Dr Allen Anderson is the new medical director of the advanced heart-failure program and director of network development at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern University.
News, May 14, 2013
Dr Burt Sobel Dies, Age 75 A renowned cardiologist and scientist, Sobel was also the director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Vermont.
News, May 07, 2013
Mark Midei Civil Suit Reaches Settlement More than 200 patients were part of a settlement reached between plaintiffs and Catholic Health Initiatives yesterday afternoon, Midei confirmed to heartwire. He says he was not a part of the settlement and regrets not having the chance to testify. The case deals with unnecessary-stenting allegations dating back to a period between 2007 and 2009.
News, May 03, 2013
2013 Winners of Grand Prix Scientifique Drs Garrett FitzGerald and Carlo Patrono share the 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique for their work in the development of low-dose aspirin for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
News, April 18, 2013
US Cardiologist Scams to Tune of $19 Million Dr Jose Katz admitted to ordering diagnostic tests regardless of patient symptoms and falsely diagnosing a majority of his patients with angina to justify their treatment.
News, April 11, 2013
Unnecessary Stenting Alleged at U of P Health System
News, April 04, 2013
NJ doc takes bribes for MRI, CT From 2009 to 2011, Dr Shashi Agarwal, 60, received more than $100 000 in kickbacks for referring patients for magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans in Orange, NJ.
News, February 15, 2013
Ernesto Paolasso Dies in Motorbike Accident Renowned cardiologist Dr Ernesto Paolasso, who was a pioneer of cardiology clinical research in Argentina, has been killed in a motorbike accident.
News, January 29, 2013

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