04Jan Posted on 01/04/201901/05/2019 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags apple watch, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, beta blockers, blood thinners, cardiac ablation, FDA, heart rhythm, statins Too Much Information (TMI) Our culture is suffering from too much information and at the same time we are losing our words to r...
30Dec Posted on 12/30/201806/02/2023 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags cholesterol, doctors, heart disease, medication, prevention, statins Raising the Bar by Lowering the Target My blog topic is the title of an American Journal of Cardiology paper that’s an outright...
13Dec Posted on 12/13/201806/01/2023 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags AFib, anesthetics, arrhythmia, beta blockers, fluoride, medication, surgery Botox for AFib? Seriously? How does that make any sense? Botulinum Toxin for AF After Cardiac Surgery. Surgery puts you...
28Oct Posted on 10/28/201806/02/2023 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags antibiotics, Big Pharma, cholesterol, heart disease, medication, statins Bribes for Drugs Lord Sufferin’ Cats, now I’ve heard it all. Big Pharma is “Paying Physicians, Patients to Lowe...
19Sep Posted on 09/19/201809/19/2018 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags breast arterial calcification, breast cancer, CAD, calcification, calcium, coronary artery disease, mammograms, osteop, osteopenia, Osteoporosis Breast Calcification and Coronary Artery Disease This Medscape article “Breast Arterial Calcification Linked to CAD Risk in Women” reports on a s...
12Sep Posted on 09/12/201806/01/2023 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags arrhythmia, cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, stroke Let’s Prevent Heart Disease It seems a reasonable statement. Let’s not wait until you have full blown heart disease requiring...
29Aug Posted on 08/29/201806/02/2023 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine, Muscles Tags abdominal aortic calcification, blood pressure, cholesterol, coronary artery calcification, heart disease, Idiopathic, inflammation, muscle weakness, musculoskeletal, myalgia, pain management, statins Statin Use and Muscle Inflammation The title of a recent Medscape article “Statin Use Linked to Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis” c...
21Aug Posted on 08/21/201808/21/2018 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags AFib, athletes, atrial fibrilation, calcification, high blood pressure, hypertensives, insulin resistance, magnesium deficiency 3 Nails in the Magnesium Deficiency Coffin Three Medscape articles in a row caught my eye. I could write a blog on each one but collectively th...
27Jun Posted on 06/27/201806/27/2018 Categories Heart, Modern Medicine Tags ablation, AFib, atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular health, Placebo To Ablate or Not to Ablate – That is the Question Dr. Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist who I cited in my blog “Could Ablation for AFib Be An...