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Article: Bradley calls timeout for heart check.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- December 11, 1999
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Bill Bradley abruptly canceled his weekend West Coast campaign trip late yesterday to seek treatment for an irregular heartbeat, raising health questions just weeks before the first Democratic presidential primary test.
But Bradley's cardiologist, Dr. Ed Anderson, said the candidate's heart rate had returned to normal when he arrived for treatment late yesterday and "no therapeutic action was needed."
"He will be back on the campaign trail Sunday," one aide said.
Bradley, a former New York Knicks basketball star, is being treated for atrial fibrillation, a condition he was first diagnosed with three years ago, when an electrical shock was used ...