Saving the Heart
Subtitle: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195112795
First sentence: Early in 1984, David Allison, a 41-year-old political consultant in Juneau, Alaska, went to the hospital with pain in his chest.
Description: "Though still the leading cause of death, coronary heart disease is now killing half as many people in the U.S. as in the 1960s, partly because of innovative treatments like bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty. This book tells the stories of the bold researchers who developed such treatments and explores the tough ethical questions raised by the big money being made in modern cardiology."--BOOK JACKET.