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11/14/03 - Can Statins Halt Coronary Artery Disease?
Atorvastatin appears to stop plaque growth

11/10/03 - Managing Your Health Plan
Part 4 of the series: Getting What You Need From the Health Care System

11/06/03 - What's the Deal With the New Plaque Shrinker?
Synthetic HDL shrinks coronary artery plaques

10/29/03 - Managing Your Health Plan
Part 3 of the series: Getting What You Need From the Health Care System

10/27/03 - Managing Your Doctor
Part 2 of the series: Getting What You Need From the Health Care System

10/25/03 - Are Cox-2 Inhibitors Safe?
 The Cox-2 controversy.

10/23/03 - Bypass surgery benefits the elderly, too
 Patients over 75 receive the same benefits.

10/21/03 - Why the Health Care System Behaves the Way it Does
Part 1 of the series: Getting What You Need From the Health Care System

10/17/03 - What To Do If You Have High Cardiac Risk
This is serious business - and requires a serious response from you and your doctor

10/15/03 - Vasovagal Syncope and the Misdiagnosis of Epilepsy
Many patients diagnosed as epileptic actually have only vasovagal syncope.

10/13/03 - Statins often Ineffective?
A study in the UK shows that more than half the patients treated with statins fail to meet targets.

10/09/03 - The South Beach Diet Controversy
A new low-carb diet makes the rounds.

10/07/03 - Resynchronization in heart failure
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces death and hospitalization

09/29/03 - Aspirin Reduces Risk by One Third
An aspirin a day keeps the cardiologist away.

09/20/03 - Heart disease: the leading cause of death in smokers
The good news: not all smokers are destined to die of cancer

09/16/03 - Aortic Stenosis
What you should know about this common valvular heart problem

09/09/03 - Flu Vaccine Reduces Cardiac Death
In cardiac patients, flu shot prevents more than the flu

08/26/03 - An Uh-oh for Atkins?
Extreme low-carb diet increases bad lipids in kids

08/23/03 - Traditional Risk Factors are More Important Than We Thought
Over 90% of cardiac deaths are related to the Big Four

08/18/03 - How Super is the new Superstatin?
Rosuvostatin (Crestor) is finally approved by the FDA

08/12/03 - Peanuts are also good for the heart
 Finally - evidence that the most popular "nut" is also heart-healthy

08/06/03 - Syncope - Loss of Consciousness and What it Means
What you need to know, and what your doctor might not

07/30/03 - Problems with the Drug-Coated Stent?
A letter to doctors warns of early clotting, and how to avoid it

07/23/03 - The Strange Life of Amiodarone
This drug is uniquely effective, but uniquely toxic

07/16/03 - Heart Attack Treatment Better, but Not Good Enough
Up to 25% of patients still get substandard care after heart attacks

07/09/03 - A Warning for Diabetics with Heart Failure
Many are receiving medications known to be dangerous

07/07/03 - How Much Exercise is Really Necessary?
An hour a day?  You've got to be kidding.

06/30/03 - Non-prescription Cholesterol Lowering
Yes, it can be done - at least for some

06/23/03 - Antioxidants Strike Out
Beta-carotene and vitamin E fail to prevent heart disease

06/16/03 - Say Nuts to Heart Disease
Adding nuts to your diet may reduce the risk of heart disease

06/09/03 - The Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Here's how it is done, and what we can learn from it.

06/02/03 - Trans fatty acids and the heart
They're everywhere - and they may be more dangerous than lard.

05/26/03 - Atkins Vindicated?
Not yet, but his low-carb diet is two steps closer to acceptance

05/19/03 - Holter and event monitoring
Ambulatory monitoring in evaluating heart rhythm disturbances

05/12/03 - Do EBCT scans motivate change in behavior?
A new study suggests - Nah

05/05/03 - Does the flu cause heart attacks?
It looks that way - a new strategy for preventing heart disease

04/28/03 - Low fats, or low carbs?
Maybe the two sides aren't as far apart as they seem

04/21/03 - Cardiac MRI
What are the emerging uses of this rapidly evolving technique for evaluating the heart?

04/14/03 - Tilt Table Testing
What the tilt study tells doctors - and what it doesn't

04/07/03 - A Substitute for Coumadin?
New drug proves as effective as coumadin for preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation

03/31/03 - CRP Levels and Statins
CRP levels may guide statin use in angioplasty and stenting

03/24/03 - PVCs: premature ventricular complexes
Why PVCs are like bear droppings

03/17/03 - Ephedra - all risk, no benefit
New study demonstrates multi-organ risk, without the weight loss or athletic improvement

03/10/03 - Exercise in heart failure
Now - officially safe and effective

03/03/03 - What is your risk for cardiac disease?
If your doc won't figure your risk for you, do it yourself

02/24/03 - How to survive a heart attack - after the first day
OK - you've come through the first day in decent shape - now what?

02/17/03 - How to survive a heart attack - the first 24 hours
What you and your doctors do will be critical

02/10/03 - HCM: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
A common congenital heart disorder

02/03/03 - New Guidelines on CRP Testing
New recommendations from the AHA and CDC

01/27/03 - The Electrophysiology Study
A catheterization study for diagnosing and treating cardiac arrhythmias

01/20/03 - Bundle Branch Block
What it is, and what it means

01/13/03 - Alcohol and the heart, revisited
A new study makes the doctors' dilemma even more difficult

01/06/03 - Cardiac Syndrome X
What is it, and how is it diagnosed and treated?

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