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  1. The Charlie Rose Science Series: Heart Disease
    The Charlie Rose Science Series: Heart Disease

    with Lori Mosca, Steven Nissen, Lance Becker and more on Sep 19, 2007

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    54 min
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  2. Childhood obesity and heart disease
    Childhood obesity and heart disease

    with Harlan Krumholz, Lance Becker and Steven Nissen on Sep 19, 2007

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    46 sec
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  3. Symptoms of heart disease
    Symptoms of heart disease

    with Steven Nissen, Lance Becker, Lori Mosca and more on Sep 19, 2007

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    53 sec
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  4. The future of preventative cardiology Part I
    The future of preventative cardiology Part I

    with Steven Nissen on Sep 19, 2007

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    2 min
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  5. The future of regenerative heart muscle
    The future of regenerative heart muscle

    with Steven Nissen and Paul Nurse on Sep 19, 2007

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    55 sec
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Steven Nissen is a heart specialist and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

He first gained prominence when he developed techniques in 1987 to thread miniaturized ultrasound imaging devices into a patient’s heart to reveal the exact composition of plaques causing the early stages of artery damage. This allowed much easier evaluation of anticholesterol medications.

His efforts in 2004 linked COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex and Merck’s Vioxx with heart attacks, and prevented Merck’s similar product, Arcoxia, from being approved. In 2005, he attacked the experimental diabetes drug Pargluva, from Bristol-Myers Squibb, for its serious heart risks. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel had strongly recommended approval, but Pargluva was withdrawn. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Nissen