Heart Rhythm Medicine, Health, Cycling, Fitness.
Cycling Wednesday has to be postponed this week. There is indeed a more pressing and relevant health matter that has come to light today. I am talking huge news; a story ripe with optimism and hope. Let me tell you about a possible paradigm-changing idea in the seemingly hopeless matter of controlling runaway healthcare costs—a [...]
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Folks. Are you interested in a real doc’s view of recent health care news? Did you too wonder how one person, without a medical degree, vetoed the decision of trained medical professionals at the FDA and beyond? Do you wonder about the conflict of interest in Ms Sebelius’ decision? Gosh, though I have not studied [...]
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There are important medical studies, and then there are landmark studies–the kind of science that disrupts the entire medical community. The most recent game-changer was published yesterday (online) in the British equivalent of the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet. Well known surgeon and author, Dr Atul Gawande and colleagues published this important look-back [...]
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Did you know September is AFib awareness month? As a believer in education as the first, and best treatment of AF, I think it’s great to enhance the public knowledge of this highly-misunderstood disease. By all means… Tell people about AF’s risks: stroke and heart failure. Tell them that their fatigue, poor exercise tolerance and [...]
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This week’s edition of medical Grand Rounds is hosted by the famous Dr Val Jones, owner, operator and CEO of Better Health, a website that features a network of health bloggers. Better Health is well known for its curation of ”Smart Health” commentary. At first glance it looks like this week’s contributors have brought their [...]
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I would like to introduce you to a new medical website. It’s called MDNews.com. It’s a site about, from, and for doctors. But that doesn’t mean you have to be a doctor to enjoy and learn from it. MDNews looks pleasing to the eye, is easy to navigate, and filled with useful medical and health [...]
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