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Dr. Robert Jarvik has worked as a spokesperson for the top-selling anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor. Congressional investigators believe a body double was hired to make Jarvik look more athletic in ...
As a physician with satirical leanings, I enjoy viewing pharmaceutical ads on TV. I find it fun to watch the magicians of Madison Avenue inflate, twist, stretch, connect and contort facts and ...
But Dr. Robert Jarvik seems to be the first celebrity physician to endorse a prescription drug. In the print ad, the doctor says, I've studied the human heart for a lifetime.
Dr. Robert Jarvik is best-known for the artificial heart he pioneered more than 25 years ago. Since then he had toiled in relative obscurity, until he began appearing in television ads two years ...
Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his Manhattan home at age 79.
Robert Jarvik, the artificial heart inventor and doctor spurned by Pfizer as its spokesman for Lipitor yesterday, spoke out in his own defense this afternoon. Jarvik, president and CEO of Jarvik ...
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pioneer Dr. Robert Jarvik as a spokesman for its ...
Robert Jarvik is a physician. What’s more, he plays one on TV. And in print. He recently became the pitchman for the top-selling drug in the world, Pfizer’s $13-billion cash cow Lipitor, in ...
Who can turn around these days without seeing an ad for Lipitor that features medical pitchman Robert Jarvik, inventor of an artificial heart? We can't. We compared Jarvik to the ubiquitous ...
Robert K. Jarvik and Marilyn vos Savant, unofficially the World’s Smartest Couple, have been married 10 months now. They live happily on the 39th floor of a highrise on New York’s West Side, ...
Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart Jarvik-7, holds up a model like the one implanted in a patient named Barney Clark, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 3, 1982.