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Cycling Wed Exercise Healthy Living

Exercise and the heart — keep it simple

Exercise is a white-hot topic. We must talk more. This comment on my Facebook page only strengthened my resolve to clarify things. Not to be flip, snarky (or for that matter even just plain dense) but part of me is asking what’s the point of this? It brings up far more questions than it answers. […]

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Atrial fibrillation General Cardiology Health Care

AliveCor IPhone ECG transforms heart rhythm monitoring

I’m sad. Gone is the novelty of having magic in my IPhone. For over a year, I was special. As a beta-tester, I could show you your heart rhythm on my IPhone. Today, the AliveCor IPhone ECG passed muster with the FDA. It gained clearance to be sold to medical providers. I first reported this […]

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Atrial fibrillation

New post up over at theHeart.org — Rethinking on old drug for atrial fibrillation

Hey all, I just published a new post on an old drug–digoxin. “Dig,” as it is shortened to in medical-speak, originally came from the foxglove plant. A recent analysis of the landmark AFFIRM trial has questioned the wisdom of using this decades-old medicine. I know; dig isn’t as interesting as ObamaCare, ICDs or AF ablation, […]