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The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink –IKE REIGHARD
Heart Disease
Variability is Good for Your Health
Variability is a good thing with your heart rate and turns out with your emotions too! We have known that increased heart rate variability is a sign of good health for many years. A study published in Circulation back in Read more…
Health Strategies
2018 Fast Track Plan to Good Health
As we all enter a new year I wanted to share a few thoughts about successfully planning for 2018 to be a year of great health for all of us. Here are several exercises to help you maximize the opportunity Read more…
Medical Research
Update: The Risk and Benefits of Hormone Therapy in Women
OK this is a very interesting and important update regarding the risks and benefits for post-menopausal women on hormonal therapy. I get asked almost weekly about the safety of taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause. For years the standard Read more…
Medical News
Viagra Generic Available Starting Today
The patent for the “little blue pill”, Viagra, held by Pfizer isn’t set to expire until 2020. The Israeli generic drug company Teva, following a patent dispute, was granted the right to release a generic version of the drug beginning Read more…
Book Review
Book Review: Managing the Myths of Healthcare
I have read dozens of books on healthcare. Not medicine (of which I have read voluminously), but healthcare. The delivery of medical services. I wanted to share a review of a book I recently finished that I must say has Read more…
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Thanksgiving and Your Health
I wanted to write about Thanksgiving this weekend. Merriam-Webster defines thankful as being “conscious of a benefit received”. Other words you might use in place of thankful include being grateful, appreciative, or satisfied. So Thanksgiving is a day to reflect Read more…
Heart Disease
Do You Now Have Hypertension?
Just 50 years ago high blood pressure was considered part of the normal aging process and not treatable – and thus was considered “essential” hypertension. A large multi-center VA trial began in the 1950s using the diuretic thiazide was published Read more…
Medical Research
Can Too Little Calcium Cause a Heart Attack?
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is fatal for over 90% of patients. Between 50-70% of those experiencing SCA have no clinical history of heart disease before the event, or are recognized as being at high risk , so identifying risks of Read more…