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After months of speculation and rumors about the health of Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, Michael E. DeBakey, the American pioneering heart surgeon, and Russian doctors gave the first detailed account of his medical condition and prospects for heart surgey. DeBakey said that although Yeltsin's 'general condition is not bad at all,' he does have serious blockage in the arteries that feed the heart

After months of speculation and rumors about the health of Boris Yeltsin, Dr. Michael DeBakey, the American pioneering heart surgeon, and Russian doctors gave the first detailed account of his medical condition and prospects for heart surgery. Calming days of mounting concern that Yeltsin may be too sick to rule Russia, his doctors said that the Russian leader would go ahead with a bypass operation and was expected to make a full recovery. The surprisingly optimistic prognosis, endorsed by DeBakey, gave a badly needed lift to the Yeltsin government, which had been shaken by assertions that he might too sick to risk surgery

Federal health officials on Sep 20, 1996 proposed new guidelines for transplants of animal organs and tissue into humans, responding to concerns about their potential for causing outbreaks of new and previously known diseases

Federal health officials Friday proposed new guidelines for transplants of animal organs and tissues into humans, responding to concerns about their potential for causing outbreaks of new and previously known diseases. The guidelines 'aim to walk a tightrope' in protecting public health while not impeding promising research efforts to find new ways to alleviate the shortage of human donor organs and tissues, said Dr. David A. Kessler, commissioner of Food and Drugs

A standard procedure used more than a million times a year on seriously ill patients in this country offers no benefit and may kill some people, according to a new study that is causing consternation among many doctors. For 25 years, doctors working in the high-technology world of intensive care units have relied on the procedure to diagnose, monitor and treat very sick patients, like those experiencing heart, lung or multiorgan failure. But the authors of the study, led by Dr. Alfred F. Connors Jr. of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said doctors had never tested the procedure in a large randomized controlled trial, the most scientifically rigorous type of study

Pulmonary artery catheterization, a standard procedure used more than a million times a year on seriously ill patients in the US, offers no benefit and may kill some people, according to a new study that appeares in the Sep 18, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The procedure involves inserting a thin tube into the heart through the neck vein to collect data to guide minute-to-minute therapeutic decisions

A standard procedure used more than a million times a year on seriously ill patients in this country offers no benefit and may kill some people, according to a new study that is causing consternation among many doctors. For 25 years, doctors working in the high-technology world of intensive care units have relied on the procedure to diagnose, monitor and treat very sick patients, like those experiencing heart, lung or multi-organ failure. But the authors of the study, led by Dr. Alfred F. Connors Jr. of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said doctors had never tested the procedure in a large randomized controlled trial, the most scientifically rigorous type of study

The White House released a packet of brief statements from President Clinton's doctors on Sep 13, 1996, seeking to counter accusations by Bob Dole that Clinton had only partially disclosed information about his medical records. The statements offered a picture of a 50-year-old man in vigorous health and were largely an elaboration of what the White House had previously said