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		<title>Treatment guidelines and conflict of interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than half of the cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and other experts who set treatment guidelines have financial ties to companies that make heart drugs or surgically implanted devices. ... What can you trust?  I wish I had an answer. Last February, as I stood outside the cardiac care unit waiting for my husband who just had an emergency angioplasty, I was handed a folder about the drug-emitting stents inserted during the procedure. Not until the surgeon was halfway down the hall did I notice that all the information came from the company that makes the stents.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=7878&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart surgery 2nd opinion center</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Graboys, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, first came to our attention in 1992 when he co-authored a seminal study showing that angioplasty can be safely deferred in many people who have been told that the procedure is urgently needed.  This and many other studies he co-authored over the years led him to recommend a second opinion when a cardiac catheterization is advised because this diagnostic procedure puts people on the proverbial conveyer belt to having an angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3210&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Recent New York State Reports on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/01/most-recent-new-york-state-report-on-cardiac-surgery-outcomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) in New York State The per-hospital, per-surgeon rate of PCI, aka angioplasty, coronary-artery-opening procedures, performed in New York State hospitals from 2005 through 2007. Read latest report as of April 2010. Adult Cardiac Surgery in New York State The per-hospital, per surgeon rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and cardiac [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1248&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-Coated Stent No Riskier Than Bare-Metal Stent, But…</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/06/01/drug-coated-stent-no-riskier-than-bare-metal-stent-but%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug-coated stents, intended to keep coronary arteries from closing up again, have been under suspicion for causing harm to people years after they had an artery-opening procedure. In earlier studies, the powerful drugs used to coat the tiny wire-mesh cylinders known as stents, were linked to a slightly higher rate of death and potentially fatal blood clots. A new study of Swedish people who were implanted with either a bare-metal stent or a drug-coated stent appears to exonerate the latter.

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		<title>Most Recent New York State Report on Angioplasty Outcomes</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/02/01/most-recent-new-york-state-report-on-angioplasty-outcomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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