Exercise Improves Symptoms and Survival in Heart Failure
Friday August 31, 2007
Evidence has been accumulating for years that patients with heart failure - in contrast to decades of common belief - benefit from exercise, not from enforced rest. A recent ... Read More
Do Statins Prevent Alzheimer's Disease?
Tuesday August 28, 2007
A new study published today in the journal Neurology suggests that elderly patients who took statins had less evidence of Alzheimer's disease on autopsy than elderly patients who did not ... Read More
Sticking to the Diet - and Not the Diet Itself - Is What Counts
Monday August 27, 2007
Low fats? Low carbs? Low calorie? Low glycemic? All the controversy over which diet is the "best" may be irrelevant. Research shows that it doesn't really matter which ... Read More
Live Webcase of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
Friday August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 30, at 6 PM central time, doctors will perform a live webcast of a minimally invasive procedure to repair a patient's mitral valve. For a preview and for ... Read More
Migraine Aura - Another Cardiac Risk Factor
Monday August 20, 2007
A new study shows that patients who have migraine attacks preceded by aura (unusual symptoms such as flashing lights, confusion, or even partial paralysis) have an increased risk for cardiovascular ... Read More
Make Your Mondays Healthy
Friday August 17, 2007
Do you need more help making the lifestyle changes that can lead to a longer, more vigorous, and happier life? Make every Monday the day you recommit to living your ... Read More
Beta Blockers Poor Choice for Many With Hypertension
Monday August 13, 2007
A new review of the medical literature concludes that beta blockers probably should not be used as sole medical treatment for patients with uncomplicated hypertension. While beta blockers may ... Read More
Apparently, Some Red Yeast Rice Still Contains Lovastatin
Friday August 10, 2007
There has been a lot of confusion out there about red yeast rice. Eight or ten years ago studies showed that this over-the-counter dietary supplement was quite effective at ... Read More
Major cause of heart attack under 40? Smoking
Friday August 10, 2007
A new study shows that smoking is the major cause of heart attacks in people under 40 years of age. Read what this means - for younger smokers, and ... Read More
Exercise: the Elixir of Youth
Monday August 6, 2007
Ponce de Leon could have saved himself the trouble of tromping through the swamps of Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth (finding instead alligators and malaria). Instead, he ... Read More
Is Obesity Contagious?
Thursday August 2, 2007
In view of the hundreds of reports in the media suggesting that fat friends make you fat, or that obesity is somehow contagious, there's less to the New England Journal ... Read More