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Thomas Fogarty dies at 91 BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
FOGARTY, photo from Fogarty Innovation.
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COLOMBIAN PREZ INVITED: President Trump abruptly changed his tone about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro. Trump said yesterday they had exchanged a friendly phone call and he had invited the leader of the South American country to the White House. Trump posted on his social media site that Petro “called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had.” Trump had said after the U.S. operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that “Colombia is very sick too” and accused Petro of ”making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” MORE MEAT: New guidelines for healthy eating say Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar. The guidance, released by RFK. Jr. yesterday, offers new advice to avoid prepared or packaged highly processed foods, to limit saturated fats and added sugars and to eat more [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
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Dr. Thomas Fogarty, a renowned cardiologist, inventor and the owner of a well-known winery on Skyline Boulevard, has died. He was 91 years old. Fogarty, a Los Altos resident, died on Dec. 28 and is best known for inventing a device to help remove blood clots in the legs with minimally invasive surgery, called the Fogarty balloon embolectomy catheter. He was also involved in the creation of a tissue heart valve and an aortic stent graft, both of
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which help make surgeries safer and more accessible. Over the course of his career, Fogarty was awarded more than 190 medical patents and founded or co-founded more than 45 medical technology companies. He received a Presidential Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama in 2014.
Fogarty was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2007, he founded the medical innovation incubator Fogarty Innovation at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. Fogarty was born on Feb. 25 in Cincinnati, Ohio and was the youngest of three siblings. An early inventor, at 15 he invented a special clutch for the Cushman motor scooter that connects its engine to the wheels. Fogarty said in a 2024 interview that he was not [See FOGARTY, page 18]
ICE officer shoots, kills woman
A FEDERAL AGENT sprays a protester with a chemical agent near a woman was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. AP photo.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver yesterday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary. The 37-year-old woman was shot in the head in front of a family member in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile from where George [See ICE, page 18]
Man accused in assault to go to hospital viewing Brian Weisl’s previous case, decided to send him to a state hospital A judge has found the man who beat for treatment after finding out he was up a Good Samaritan who stood up for arrested again, District Attorney Steve a stranger at the San Carlos Caltrain Wagstaffe said. Weisl is facing charges station mentally incompetent to stand for vandalism, burglary, battery and assault, according to Wagstaffe. trial, a prosecutor said yesterday. Weisl will have a maximum of two Judge Sharon Cho, who was reBY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
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years in the state hospital until the state finds he is fit for court, Wagstaffe said. The two years will start once he begins treatment, which will extend the case, Wagstaffe said. He was previously arrested in July for breaking into a business on Linden [See HOSPITAL, page 18]
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