Reload of Lipitor Before Angioplasty May Have Some Benefits
Statins have been found to have many attributes that are not always readily explainable. Recently, an article was published in JACC concerning the ARMYDA-RECAPTURE trial. Done in Italy, this study...
View ArticleAnd Away Goes Trouble Down the Drain...
In the middle ages, Alchemists dreamed of transmuting coal into gold. In much the same ways Cardiologists have dreamed of a substance that would remove plaque that had already formed akin to Drano...
View ArticleHigh Dose Statin Better
Old studies never die, they just get better. As published in JACC 54:2009:2290-5 Dr C. Michael Gibson (who is a member of our Scientific Advisory board) is the lead author of an article regarding...
View ArticleThe True Meaning of Crazy
When I was in training I had the experience of a lifetime. I had the very good fortune of being trained by physicians who still rank among the best in the world. I had the opportunity to work with...
View ArticleDiabetics and Coronary Disease
The onslaught of illness is headed our way with the massive obesity that surrounds us and the developed world. Although we have means at our disposal to decrease this coming way of extraordinary...
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A good idea that is ignored. Until now.
Photo Source: AccessMedicine © 1978-Present McGraw-Hill and/or its respective owners.Medicine moves slowly and rarely in a straight line. Change is hard to implement in particular if you are going to...
View ArticleMore fun with statins
In keeping with the topic of statins, we have another piece of foolishness that was fussed over this past week in the lay press. It involves the interaction that statins have with diabetes. For some...
View ArticleWe are at 6%
Although at times it doesn’t seem like it, we seem to be making progress with our nation’s leading killer: heart disease. Published in the MMWR or the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on October...
View ArticleEleven years later...
You have to love the British. Once they get hold of something, it’s hard to shake them loose. More than eleven long years ago, they performed a study randomizing simvastatin 40 mg a day to placebo....
View ArticleHow are “real” doctors doing?
As I have mentioned before, the practice of cardiology has led the way in codifying the results of clinical trials to formulate guidelines which, if one cares to read them, points a reasonable way to...
View ArticleThe Scorecard
Every year the American Heart Association publishes statistics about the state of America’s cardiovascular health. I could sum it up in one word, but my Webmaster won’t like it. I should, however, at...
View ArticleWhat will it be...yes or no?
Here is a good story for you. It's a real brain teaser. In the interest of full disclosure, the drug I will discuss is one of my least favorite. This drug that I have blogged about in the past...
View ArticleA new lipid drug appears
Over the past two and one half years that I have been writing this blog, I have often blogged about lipids and statins. As we have always known and have recently heard again, statins are not perfect...
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Goodbye Lipitor. So long Plavix.
Photo from webmd.comIt is the end of one age and the beginning of another. Two drugs that accounted for the number one and number two selling drugs in the world are now both generic. The two drugs...
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A stake through the heart (Part I)
photo from ranbaxyusa.com There appears to be no bottom to it. I have attempted to inform you, my readers, about a problem that no one has an answer to and very few people seem to care about. It's...
View ArticleReload of Lipitor Before Angioplasty May Have Some Benefits
Statins have been found to have many attributes that are not always readily explainable. Recently, an article was published in JACC concerning the ARMYDA-RECAPTURE trial. Done in Italy, this study...
View ArticleAnd Away Goes Trouble Down the Drain...
In the middle ages, Alchemists dreamed of transmuting coal into gold. In much the same ways Cardiologists have dreamed of a substance that would remove plaque that had already formed akin to Drano...
View ArticleHigh Dose Statin Better
Old studies never die, they just get better. As published in JACC 54:2009:2290-5 Dr C. Michael Gibson (who is a member of our Scientific Advisory board) is the lead author of an article regarding...
View ArticleThe True Meaning of Crazy
When I was in training I had the experience of a lifetime. I had the very good fortune of being trained by physicians who still rank among the best in the world. I had the opportunity to work with...
View ArticleDiabetics and Coronary Disease
The onslaught of illness is headed our way with the massive obesity that surrounds us and the developed world. Although we have means at our disposal to decrease this coming way of extraordinary...
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