As a heart attack survivor, I can tell you that some of the funniest things I've heard come from other survivors. The difference: WE are telling in-jokes about OURSELVES. Might not be as hilarious i f...
Where I live (British Columbia, Canada) patients already have free online access to all of our medical procedure records and lab test results. Easy peasey. Even before these were available online, a ll...
Dr. Maggon - Readers here should be made aware of your own pharmaceutical company conflicts of interest as noted in your bio, which boasts of, among other accomplishments, helping your drug clients to...
A life-long drug therapy for children is a dream-come-true for any drug manufacturer, but is it yet another example of what's been called "marketing-based medicine"?
Let me get this straight: the CURRENT OASIS-7 results are: "no significant benefit of doubling the dose of clopidogrel" in the overall ACS population?!?
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"...this conflict between holding onto a patient and yet still providing the patient an opportunity for further or better treatment is part of the process of putting the patient's best interest ahead of...
The journal Lancet reported a study on adults in May using an unconventional way to limit the size of a heart attack using a conventional blood pressure cuff. This can reduce the amount of permanent h eart...
Good grief - why are we even debating this question? Eric Shore is correct in wishing for a little humanity in medicine. The question is about the physician apologizing for being the bearer of bad new s...
The WebMD article states: "Blood samples for these cardiac enzyme tests are usually drawn every 8 to 12 hours for 1 to 2 days after a suspected heart attack, to look for the rise and fall in the enzym e...
I'm assuming that you're asking about heart attack symptoms. You might be interested in reading the interview: "How Does It Really Feel To Have A Heart Attack? Women Survivors Tell Their Stories" at: http...
Here's what Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiology at Cleveland Clinic, told the LA Times this week about the explosion in the use of CT scans to check for calcium:
Although I'm a heart attack survivor who now takes statin drugs every day (routinedly prescribed in our Heart Institute for all cardiac patients), I've become increasingly interested in this question br...
Yogurt is a good example of a product that has benefited from a very successful and expensive corporate marketing campaign that has 'educated' the consumer about yogurt as a health food - even though much...
Probiotics and prebiotics have enjoyed a marketing boost largely due to the $multi-million ad campaign by Dannon and its parent company Group Danone. But all consumers should know what's been going o n...
At the annual WomenHeart 'Science & Leadership Symposium for Women With Heart Disease' last fall at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, cardiologists there recommended to us the Mediterranean Diet fo r...
Tragically, it's far too common. The often surprising stats about women's heart disease mortality are true. Heart disease this year will kill six times more women than breast cancer (more than all f orms...
My skeptical self agrees with Dr. Kumar, even though - like virtually all heart attack survivors, even those with normal cholesterol levels - I've been prescribed a daily statin since my heart attack last...
Yes, unfortunately. Some research estimates as high as twice the risk of heart disease in the first 10 years following RA diagnosis. Inflammation is generally considered to be the link between the tw o...
Hi Johannes - I actually thought that the Polymeal was just a joke. I've read a number of opinions that, despite Big Pharma's hoopla, discredit the Polypill (Media Doctor Canada flat out calls it "b ad...
I've had to change statin drugs twice before hitting upon one that has successfully reduced LDL numbers to our satisfaction. Diet and exercise are als o...
"...I completely agree that lifestyle changes are core to many diseases but pharmaceutical treatment currently on the market has been shown scientifically to be safe, effic acious...
Oh, and another Big Pharma scandal: who could forget drug giant Merck's embarrassing revelation that they had even invented a fake medical journal they called "The Australasian Journal of Bone and Jo int...
At Mayo Clinic, we were taught that most heart disease is 20-30 years in the making. Well publicized autopsies of Korean war casualties showed high levels of atherosclerosis - and these were very youn g...
Depends on who you ask. If you ask pharmaceutical industries, they'd likely suggest that statins in the drinking water would be a swell idea for all. It also depends on your risk factors: diabetics require...
Well, there's fat - and then there's fat. We know that there is a difference between the so-called 'good' fats (olive or canola oil, avocados, nuts) and the 'bad' fats (saturated and trans-fats). Th e...