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Some days, I eat so much crap that I wouldn’t be surprised if I dropped dead on the spot. Like today, I had a Sainsbury’s Thin & Crispy pepperoni pizza for lunch. I’d never bothered to look at the nutrition information at the back before but it caught my eye today.
This is a picture of […]
Aspirin is good for you, whether you’re a man, whether you’re a woman.
~Dr. Jeffrey Berger of Duke University Medical CEnter
And there you have it! Latest results from the Nurses Health Study show that taking aspirin in low to moderate doses (baby aspirin is 81-mg per tablet) can:
Reduce the risk of death in middle-aged and older […]
My son and I often go to the playground after school even on days when the weather isn’t the greatest and others have hurried home. Once on a day when there was no one else at the playground, he said to me, “I’m all alone.” It was heartbreaking.
When it comes to heart disease, many patients […]
Shawn Bridges died Monday at age 35 from the effects of meth addiction on his heart. Among other major health effects, crystal methamphetamine (meth) is associated with an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. Shawn was diagnosed with congestive heart failure after he suffered a heart attack at age 26 and twice had to […]
Just when we learn that a new generation of heart stents may soon make angioplasty safer, results from the COURAGE clinical trial of over 2,000 patients shows that medication and angioplasty were equally effective in treating stable coronary disease. Called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), angioplasty to treat clogged arteries did not appear to reduce the […]
Some heart trivia fun today with Steve Remington of Inside Fatherhood. I hope you also know the answers to these questions of the heart because they’re based on information I’ve shared over the past few weeks. Steve and I are a little crazy both intentionally and unintentionally. Hope you have fun listening to the one-and-a-half […]
Patients with high blood pressure that does not respond to anti-hypertensive medications and other interventions may someday have the option of having a medical device implanted similar to pacemakers. The Rheos Baroflex Hypertention Therapy System was developed by CVRx that delivers electrical impulses to the carotid arteries thus triggering the baroreflex system to lower blood […]
That crack-up Dr. Rob is hosting Pediatric Ground Rounds today to the theme of Tom and Jerry. A must-read for parents and anyone who cares about children’s health and well being.
Tags: pediatric grand rounds, children, kids, health, medicine
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Louis Acompora died at age 14 when a lacrosse ball in play struck his chest between heartbeats. After throwing the ball back, he had an instant cardiac arrest, then died. He was later determined to have commotio cordis, cardiac death caused by blunt force trauma to the precordium, the part of the body over the […]
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought my job would give me a stroke but for firefighters, the risk of heart disease related to the job is real. Take a look at these amazing statistics from a study of firefighter deaths:
Firefighters are 12 to 136 times more likely to die of heart disease […]
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