Heart trouble bothered him, and he once found the little paint-pot almost too heavy to lift, but he never considered stopping.

ECONOMIST: Roman Opalka

Weldon launched the first drug-coated stent, Cypher, for angina, a kind of heart pain, and then had so much trouble competing with Abbott and other rivals that it eventually closed the division.

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