There isn’t much that stays behind closed doors these days, and the case of Jim Mazzo, the outgoing CEO of Advanced Medical Optics, might be nothing more than a case of camaraderie-loosened lips … or something more toxic. To recap, Mazzo, has been charged by the SEC with insider trading violations thanks to trades made by several former professional baseball players. The thread of the story seems to be that Mazzo told Doug DeCinces in 2008 of the then-impending move by Abbott to acquire AMO. It appears DeCinces then relayed the scoop to a couple of other former major league...

Sooner or later, we’ll all know someone who has lost his or her life to heart disease, and today, Sept. 10, 2012, is the 20th anniversary of my father’s passing. George Edward McCarty had undergone a triple bypass several years earlier, but restenosis of the coronary arteries and an otherwise failing heart would be his undoing. The world of medical technology has changed enormously since Dad died, so much so that what we now take for granted might have seemed miraculous in 1992. Would Dad have lived another 20 years had his predicament arisen 20 years later in medical history?...

The world of cardiology still holds a spot front and center in the realm of medical technology, so it only seems fitting to celebrate the birth of Michael Ellis DeBakey, MD, whose birth on Sept. 7, 1908 was followed by his passing very nearly 100 years later to the day, July 11, 2008. In the ten decades between those two dates, the physician was published more than a thousand times in medical journals and in bound books. DeBakey’s name would become synonymous with pioneering efforts in circulatory system surgery, but the man who was born Michael Dabaghi in Lake Charles,...