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Eugene

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Tue Feb 16, 2021, 07:38 PM Feb 2021

Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99

Source: Associated Press

Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99

February 16, 2021

BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Bernard Lown, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday. He was 99.

The Boston Globe reported the Lithuania-born doctor’s health had been declining from congestive heart failure. He died in his Boston-area home.

Lown, who was a professor at Harvard University and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, had helped advance cardiac treatment.

He’d been among the first doctors to emphasize the importance of diet and exercise in treating heart disease and introduced the drug Lidocaine as a treatment for arrhythmia, the Globe reports. In 1962, Lown invented the direct-current defibrillator, or cardioverter, which uses electric shocks to get hearts to resume beating.

He was also an outspoken social activist, founding Physicians for Social Responsibility in 1960 and later co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in the 1980s, the newspaper reports.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/boston-nobel-prizes-lithuania-massachusetts-2ce00f16b928b60fe3ec4b3858e7fc23

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Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99 (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2021 OP
RIP, Dr. Lown! Backseat Driver Feb 2021 #1
Requiescat in pace, good soul. niyad Feb 2021 #2
i am a cardiac patient with afib and a flutter , pvcs and avcs . AllaN01Bear Feb 2021 #3
RIP MustLoveBeagles Feb 2021 #4
RIP MustLoveBeagles Feb 2021 #5

AllaN01Bear

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3. i am a cardiac patient with afib and a flutter , pvcs and avcs .
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:14 PM
Feb 2021

i am glad to know who invented the zapper that will get my heart back into happy beats . thank you sir. bookmarked for future reference .

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