International best-selling author Robert Kowalski died suddenly on November 9th at age 65 of a pulmonary aneurysm. Mr. Kowalski was a medical journalist for more than three decades. After his second by­pass surgery at age 41, he set out to develop a heart-health program. In 1987, he shared that program and its dramatic results in a book, The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure, which put oat bran into the American diet and became an international and New York Times bestseller. Mr. Kowalski also published The Diet-Heart Newsletter. His ninth book, Take The Pressure Off Your Heart: 8 Weeks to Lower Blood Pressure Without Prescription Drugs, went into publication in 2007.