In the next 24 hours, nearly 10,000 heart procedures will be performed in hospitals across the U.S. That's 365 days a year, year after year.
Procedures and drugs taking aim at heart disease appear to be getting better and better-yet the cardiovascular healthcare system grows bigger, generating more procedures, more expensive... Read more
Fish has given fish oil a bad name.
Because questions have been raised over mercury and pesticide residues in fish when eaten, some people have been reluctant to add fish oil supplements to their health regimen.
But they shouldn't be.
There is no question that some types of fish, particularly large... Read more
Imagine you just learned that olive oil was good for your health (which it is, of course. I'm just using olive oil as an example to make a point.) Would you then take a capsule or two every day?
I hope not. You'd probably pour it liberally on salads, use it in cooking, keep a big jar of it handy. You wouldn't worry whether you poured 1000... Read more
While we've begun to witness a transformation of thinking about heart disease in 2008, I believe that this trend will continue in 2009.
Sadly, it won't be a deluge of change. Much of the heart disease world clings to the notion that hospital heart procedures and drugs are the answers to heart health.
Nonetheless, in 2009 I... Read more
From a heart health perspective, 2008 will prove to have been a turning point. It was a year in which we witnessed the beginnings of a major transition in thinking about heart disease. Let me explain.
I look back at 2008 and sense that, as a nation, we are starting to embrace the notion that heart procedures are not the... Read more
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