Eugene Braunwald, MD

Advances in Heart Failure : A Compendium Eugene Braunwald

INTRODUCTION Without question, the last half century has witnessed spectacular advances in cardiovascular medicine and surgery. In the United States, a full two-thirds of the six-year prolongation of life that has occurred has been a direct consequence of these advances (1) which did not spring forth simply from the heads of brilliant, insightful clinicians. Instead, most were based on preclini...

The Control of Ventricular Function in Man * by Eugene Braunwald

Since William Harvey's discovery of the prime function of the heart as a pump, clinicians and physiologists have marvelled at the extraordinary ability of this organ to adjust its performance almost instantaneously to meet the rapidly changing requirements of the peripheral tissues. Probably no other aspect of cardiovascular research has received as much effort and attention as the attempts to ...

Eugene M. Farber, MD(1917-2000).

E ugene M. Farber, MD, for 36 years professor and chairman of the Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif, and president of the Psoriasis Research Institute of Palo Alto, Calif, died November 10, 2000, after a brief illness. Farber was 83 years old. He was a native of Buffalo, NY, receiving his bachelor of arts degree from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohi...

Eugene Auston Stead, Jr., MD: a conversation with J. Willis Hurst, MD.

Clinical Risk and Judicial Reasoning: Eugene F. Sanger, AM, MD, 1829–1897

This biographical sketch of Eugene F. Sanger, AM, MD, corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Report of the Committee on Suits for Malpractice, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-008-0639-z.