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President Boris Yeltsin came out of a seven-hour, multiple-bypass heart operation in a Moscow hospital Tuesday with his doctors declaring the operation a success. At a news conference in the hospital an hour after the operation, the doctors said the surgery went without a hitch. Yeltsin's heart was stopped for 68 minutes at one phase of the operation. Dr. Renat Akchurin, 50, the surgeon who headed the team, said Yeltsin's heart muscle was now getting enough blood to function normally. But Akchurin said it would be another several days before Yeltsin is able to sign a decree resuming the presidential responsibilities that he turned over to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin minutes before undergoing anesthesia at 7 a.m. The executive powers turned over to Chernomyrdin include control of Russia's nuclear arsenal

The Kremlin announced that Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin underwent a long-awaited multiple-bypass heart operation on Nov 5, 1996 at a cardiology institute in Moscow. Yeltsin signed over his presidential powers to Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin before being anesthetized for the operation, which was expected to take several hours

Michael E. DeBakey, the American heart surgery pioneer, arrived in Moscow on Nov 3, 1996 for a meeting with Boris N. Yeltsin's doctors on Nov 4 to clear the Russian President for a heart bypass operation

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the American heart surgery pioneer, arrived here Sunday for a meeting with Boris Yeltsin's doctors today to clear the Russian president for a heart bypass operation. But Russian officials, maintaining a wall of secrecy, whisked DeBakey away before he could speak to reporters waiting at Moscow's Sheremetevo airport. In interviews from his office at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston last week, DeBakey said that if tests confirmed that Yeltsin was fit for the operation, it could be performed as early as Wednesday. However, in sharp contrast to DeBakey's specificity, a Kremlin spokesman was deliberately vague Sunday about the timing of the operation, saying it could happen anytime in the next several weeks

Michael DeBakey, the American heart-surgery pioneer, arrived here on yesterday for a meeting with Boris Yeltsin's doctors today to clear the Russian president for a heart- bypass operation. In interviews from his office at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston last week, DeBakey said that if tests confirmed that Yeltsin was fit for the operation, it could be performed as early as Wednesday. However, in sharp contrast, a Kremlin spokesman was deliberately vague yesterday about the timing of the operation, saying it could happen anytime in the next several weeks. Yesterday's hush-hush atmosphere in Moscow contrasted with DeBakey's arrival six weeks ago when he spoke to reporters before he examined Yeltsin. DeBakey was the first independent international consultant in Yeltsin's case. At a press conference following his examination, DeBakey greatly eased world concern over Yeltsin's health, by saying he expected that the 65-year-old leader would be ready for a multi-vessel coronary-bypass operation in 6 to 10 weeks if unassociated medical problems cleared up

Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the government's project to map all human genes, said Tuesday that he is retracting five research papers on leukemia in leading scientific journals because a junior colleague fabricated data. The flawed papers involved laboratory research on the role of a defective gene in producing acute leukemia. The research did not involve patients or treatment of the disease. Upon learning of the problem in mid-August, Collins said in an interview, he 'thought it was an isolated instance whereby a trainee in my laboratory manipulated the data.'

Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the government's project to map all human genes, said yesterday that he was retracting five research papers on leukemia in leading scientific journals because a junior colleague fabricated data. On learning of the problem in mid-August, Collins said in an interview, he 'thought it was an isolated instance whereby a trainee in my laboratory manipulated the data.' Collins and officials at the institutes declined to name the student for legal reasons. But the student was identified as Amitov Hajra through an examination of the papers that Collins said he is retracting. One paper lists only two authors, Hajra and Collins

According to preliminary findings from a small study, the skin tumors of Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common form of cancer among people with AIDS, often yielded to injections of human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, a hormone produced in pregnancy. The study of 36 men is being reported on Oct 24, 1996 in the New England Journal of Medicine

A new study being published on Oct 23, 1996 in The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that medical emergencies caused by very high blood pressure are often treated with a drug that is neither safe nor effective for the condition. The report found that patients taking the drug, the short-acting form of nifedipine, had suffered strokes, heart attacks and other serious, sometimes fatal, complications after taking the drug

In his first interview about his health, President Clinton said that it was ``very good,'' that he had never had a serious illness and that he had controlled his three most pesky problems: hoarseness, allergies and weight. Clinton, 50, pledged in the interview Saturday to tell the public if he developed any serious illness while in the White House. From the moment he took office, he has had ready a detailed written plan on how to activate the 25th Amendment if he is ever disabled and Vice President Al Gore needs to assume the duties of president