Medicine: Thrombosis

Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine four able investigators explained how coronary thrombosis, a common cause of heart failure, can be overcome and the victim's life prolonged indefinitely. What Boston's Dr. Edward Franklin Bland and Manhattan's Drs. Arthur Morris Master, Harry Lawrence Jaffe and Simon Dack had to say was good news for every overworked man in his fifties.

Feeding the ever-active muscles of the heart as any other tissue in the body is fed are two arteries about the diameter of a soda straw. If anything happens to these coronary...

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