Angioplasty

'A nation of lab rats' as devices untested (Canada.com)

24 Jul 2008

Late in the 1990s, Health Canada licensed a new artificial lens, the latest in an innovative generation of implants for treating cataracts. Made from a foldable material, it could be inserted in the eye with a smaller incision than usual and less-invasive surgery. It did not matter, under the department's rules, that the device had been tested on relatively few people before being approved.

Manchin Approves Angioplasty Standards (The Charleston State Journal)

24 Jul 2008

New rules approved by Gov. Joe Manchin will allow many hospitals in West Virginia to start offering a common heart procedure.

Veteran Ch. 2 reporter Pablo Guzman stricken (New York Daily News)

24 Jul 2008

Just a couple of months after WCBS/Ch. 2 correspondent Pablo Guzman cheated death in a car crash, he's now recovering from a heart attack. Guzman, 57, suffered the coronary Tuesday at his home in Westchester County and underwent angioplasty.