Would you get heart valve surgery if you didn’t have any symptoms? New research says many patients with a common heart valve problem should have performed a heart valve surgery. The study looks at a problem with the mitral valve, which is the... Read more about HEART VALVE SURGERY STUDY
It appears that for heart attack patients, the rating by U.S. News & World Report may be justified. A new study published in the July edition of Archives of Internal Medicine found that patients treated at hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World... Read more about Hospital Rankings Partially Accurate for Heart Patients
It is dictum in the medical universe, that a low salt diet is a heart healthy way to eat. It’s common knowledge….like one plus one equals two. “The evidence is really not clear,” says Dr. Hillel Cohen, a public health expert at the Albert... Read more about Low Salt Heart Danger
There is important new research out tonight that may be the start of a different approach in medicine: to treat high blood pressure before it even gets high. The fact is about 69 percent of people who have a first heart attack, 77 percent of... Read more about PRE- HYPERTENSION TREATMENT
By Tauseef Ahmed, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Oncology / Hematology at New York Medical College Your tests have come back. The news is not good and your doctor refers you to a specialist. Oncologist,... Read more about Your First Visit
But that’s where the question lies: at what point does one really get life-protecting benefit from exercise--beyond the benefits of a better figure? Read more about holiday headaches
