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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?