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Clark's predicament coincided with the FDA approving a new artificial heart for human implantation, a device known as the Jarvik 7.
Wired Top Stories Tony Long 2011
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As opposed to the Gollum-like Jarvik, Mr. Erlendson comes across as a sincere guy who is genuinely distraught over his medical condition.
Anatomy of a statin ad | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Ichthyostega was first reconstructed by the Swedish palaeontologist Erik Jarvik in 1955, and again he portrayed it as closer to a land-dweller than modern experts do.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Ichthyostega was first reconstructed by the Swedish palaeontologist Erik Jarvik in 1955, and again he portrayed it as closer to a land-dweller than modern experts do.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But like the Health Department, Jarvik seems to think the deception is fine, since the ads, regardless of their veracity, still communicate a valid and important point.
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The Jarvik-Lipitor ads have disappeared from TV but the larger issue of physicians promoting certain products or services has attracted the interest-among others-of two straight-talking medical bloggers.
Archive 2008-03-01 james gaulte 2008
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Known as the inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart, he is not a cardiologist, not a licensed medical doctor and not authorized to prescribe pharmaceuticals.
Robert Weissman: Pharmaceutical Payola -- Drug Marketing to Doctors 2008
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The Jarvik-Lipitor ads have disappeared from TV but the larger issue of physicians promoting certain products or services has attracted the interest-among others-of two straight-talking medical bloggers.
Physicians (or just folks with MD degrees) and product promotion james gaulte 2008
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Jarvik is featured in endlessly re-run ads for Pfizer's blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Robert Weissman: Pharmaceutical Payola -- Drug Marketing to Doctors 2008
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In fact, Pfizer used an artificial Jarvik: the balding, gray-haired man seen from afar in the ads was a body double.
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