Eight companies are joining forces to launch a $100 million study intended to determine how best to protect heart patients from clots after stent placement, reported the Wall Street Journal on October 16, 2008. The article states that occurrences are rare, but the 1 in 14 chance of having a clot within a year that [...]
More on Stents
November 18th, 2008 · 5:32 PM
Tags: blood clots, chelation therapy, heart disease, prevention, stents, vascular disease
Fewer Stents May Be Better For Patients
October 22nd, 2008 · 8:36 PM
Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2008
Two studies on stents were recently presented at a cardiology conference. The first found that many patients are being given stents without adequate documentation of ischemia (inadequate oxygen). They are doing it based on visualization of arteries that appear blocked on X-ray, and not on documentation of ischemia as recommended in [...]
Tags: death, heart attacks, heart disease, inflammation, placebo, stents
Ten Medical Myths
July 8th, 2008 · 7:30 PM
Author’s Note: Recently I received a couple of responses to my article on cholesterol that asked some good questions and were thought-provoking. I want to share with you those questions, as well as the answers I gave to them. This is a good way to enlarge on some of the principles that [...]
Tags: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, heart attacks, heart disease, statins
I need to get off of caffeine. I became addicted to it after suffering headaches and taking excedrin. Now I have rebound headaches and even diet coke fills in when I need an extra boost. I have tried weening myself off and never made it. Is that the only way off?
There are only 2 ways to stop the addiction to caffeine--cold turkey and have a miserable 3-7 days or slowly, which just prolongs the misery, and may not work. My wife's mother described herself as a 'coffee-a-holic', drinking up to 13 cups per day. She stopped cold turkey, had a miserable few days, and has never touched it since. Sometimes energy work like acupuncture or Jin Shin Jyutsu or cranial-sacral may take away some of the side effects. Be sure you are on a good multiple vitamin, as this may also help with your strength and your resolve.