Prominent cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol said former Vice President Dick Cheney’s heart transplant operation over the weekend raises “ethical” questions about age and waiting lists as they relate to organ transplants.“The heart transplant is a controversial issue from an ethical standpoint since the availability of donor hearts is so limited and the list of individuals [...]

Renowned cardiologist and digital health evangelist Dr. Eric Topol has been busy making the media rounds pumping up his new book, which discusses how technologies like wireless sensors and genomics will transform the practice of medicine.But a write-up of Topol’s interview with MobiHealthNews led to another kind of transformation: that of his last name into [...]

A new era of digital healthcare will make medicine more precise and participatory, but we certainly aren’t there yet, said prominent cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol.Topol has been making the rounds recently, promoting his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, and recently spoke with HealthLeaders Media about the book.“We are in a Stone Age of [...]

Two of the Cleveland Clinic‘s greatest doctors ever, Eric Topol and Steven Nissen, have carved out contrasting views on one of the hottest topics in healthcare: personalized medicine.The preeminent cardiologists’ opposing viewpoints recently came to light after Nissen, currently the Clinic’s chair of cardiovascular medicine, penned an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical [...]

Dr. Eric Topol’s identity as a physician remains closely connected to Cleveland Clinic.His biography prominently states he is “well known for leading the Cleveland Clinic to become the #1 center for heart care,” among other things. Plus, his not getting the chief executive position at Cleveland Clinic, the subsequent departure and the brouhaha surrounding it [...]