Here's another report that confirms intuition but serves as a useful reminder: People recovering from serious heart events and participate in a three-year follow-up program stick with heart-healthy behaviors over the long term. This may (emphasis may) reduce risk of death.
This is based on Mayo Clinic Research on heart-related disease... Read more
Despite the constant stream of studies that shows use of targeted vitamins and supplements rarely does any good for specific conditions such as heart disease, the vitamin and supplement industry continues to boom.
Today comes another high-quality study on supplements and heart disease. This one knocks down the once-popular idea that B... Read more
Reports about contaminated supplies of the blood thinner heparin raise a number of big, unsettling questions about the global economy, the FDA's ability to police imports of drug ingredients and patient vulnerability.
Contaminated batches of the drug have been found in 10 countries and the U.S. Eighty-one deaths and perhaps hundreds of... Read more
A new, much-publicized report in the Journal of the American Dietetics Association crowns Dean Ornish's super-low-fat diet as the winner in the best-for-your-heart competition. Let's nibble at the edges. Bottom line first Here's how the 8 diets studied scored (out of 70 possible points) Ornish: 64.6 WeightWatchers... Read more
It's long been known that overweight and obese people have high heart disease risk. A new report in Archives of Internal Medicine shows that an unhealthy weight alone may be enough boost your risk. It also challenges a widely circulated idea about weight and health. Let's look. Bottom line first Being an unhealthy... Read more
