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I’ve written several stories here about people being accidentally tasered or taser use being abused, but here’s one where getting tasered might have actually helped someone. An article published in the June Annals of Emergence Medicine by Cardiologists at Hartford described a patients who’d suffered

The International Atomic Energy Agency has informed: “The issue of radiation protection for medical personnel is particularly acute in the case of lengthy angioplasty and other cardiac interventions performed under X-ray fluoroscopic guidance.” “The procedure can cause extensive radiation exposure

Most patients see a cardiologist for the first time after a referral from an internist or general practitioner. It can be unsettling even to realize you need a heart specialist. The process of switching cardiologists after a bad experience, or looking for one on your own, can be even more intimidating.

I previously wrote about how I feel like we are in the “Era of Ancillary Services” for the physician. The New York Times recently ran an interesting article about cardiologists and the unnecessary CT-angiography scan.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States today, and acute myocardial infarctions - heart attacks - make up a considerable number of those deaths. Over 850,000 Americans had a heart attack in 2007 alone. For years, scientists and physicians have sought ways to prevent heart attacks or to blunt their effects when they are happening.

Why are cardiologists arguing that direct-to-consumer television advertising of surgical devices raises more troubling questions than do many prominent pharmaceutical DTC ads? [Preview] This article preview is reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - May 19, 2008 Direct-to-consumer television advertising

A few weeks ago, we posted on the curious persistence – and size — of propaganda for Vytorin, the combo cholesterol drug that’s efficacy went the way of its clinical trial results – into thin air – after a panel of cardiologists rendered its cholesterol-lowering powers null and void at the American College of Cardiologists meeting in March.

So who else would like to sidestep all the side effects and treat cholesterol naturally. According toCurious Cat Science and Engineering Blog But now some prominent cardiologists say the results of two recent clinical trials have raised serious questions about that theory — and the value of two widely used cholesterol-lowering medicines, Zetia and its sister drug, Vytorin.

How appropriate that today is April Fool’s Day.  There are some things going on in my life today that cause me to laugh at the irony.  And both are matters of the heart. A few months ago, I started noticing that my heart was doing strange things in my chest.  It felt like there was a party going