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RALEIGH - Look at your wrist and you're probably checking the time. But when Dr. Tift Mann III of Wake Heart Associates in Raleigh looks at a wrist he sees all sorts of possibilities. Mann emerged the winner in this category, in part for his innovative work relating to heart disease, including a wristbased procedure for performing coronary angioplasty and stenting that results in fewer bleeding complications and patients getting back on their feet faster.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in America, and as the population ages, the...