He recently underwent a heart-bypass operation, but objects to questions about his health.

Capitalism is itself marvelously adaptive, able to turn the problems it creates into lucrative business opportunities: diet pills, heart-bypass operations, insulin pumps, bariatric surgery.

This was preceded by two heart-bypass operations in 1983 and 1992.

The first heart-bypass operations, statistically speaking, seemed no more effective than if the patients had refused treatment.

Six months later, when Mr. Ballard entered the hospital for a quintuple heart-bypass operation, the stock rose again, by $2.75 a share.

I visited my dad every day when he was in the hospital for a triple heart-bypass operation, but I don't figure a daily visit gives me the right to call myself his doctor.

About 12 years ago, he had a heart-bypass operation, Hartfield said.

Even after three heart-bypass operations, Ms. Eisbach's arteries kept reclogging.

Michels had a heart-bypass operation 15 years ago.

What he found instead that day in July 2004 looked like some gargantuan heart-bypass operation gone nightmarishly bad.