]> http://www.healthedia.com/latest Heart Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923625?rsstype=latest&cid=89 How much does bypass surgery cost? $51,522, if you go to Boston s Massachusetts General Hospital. But just a few miles away at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., it would run you $43,857.Associated PressMassachusetts General Hospital complex as... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:44:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923625?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923611?rsstype=latest&cid=89 The team of investigative reporting team of Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel just keeps rolling along, this time with an amazing story about how microwave safe plastics are leaching bisphenol-A (BPA) at potentially uns... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:22:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923611?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/junkfood-science/923589?rsstype=latest&cid=89 [Null Series Part One here.] Beliefs and ideologies can be stronger than the science, especially when it comes to our diets. Sadly, so can our fears. Millions of Americans take vitamins and worry about what they eat, fearing that if they fail to e... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:55:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/junkfood-science/923589?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923547?rsstype=latest&cid=89 I'm sure you can agree that after a romp in the sheets, you always feel happier and more relaxed. Aside from those emotional benefits, check out WebMD's list of 10 health benefits of sex.Relieves Stress: The calming effect of sex has a positive impac... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923547?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923571?rsstype=latest&cid=89 I'm sure you can agree that after a romp in the sheets, you always feel happier and more relaxed. Aside from those emotional benefits, check out WebMD's list of 10 health benefits of sex.Relieves Stress: The calming effect of sex has a positive impac... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923571?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/daily-headache/923530?rsstype=latest&cid=89 Talking to Hart about hormonal birth control, migraine and stroke risk got me wondering what my risk really is. If it is low, multiplying the number by eight isn t that big of a deal. Kersti explains this well in her comment on the post:[T]he probl... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:08:57 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/daily-headache/923530?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923509?rsstype=latest&cid=89 We are soooo late to this party, but it s such a delicious one that we just can t resist a weekend post. On Wednesday, Comedy Central s Stephen Colbert, of all people, weighed in with some remarkably trenchant analysis on the results of the Jup... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:43:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923509?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/nutrition-data/923506?rsstype=latest&cid=89 A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that some people with normal cholesterol levels may benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins), even more than those with elevated cholesterol do! What are we looking a... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:36:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/nutrition-data/923506?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/923312?rsstype=latest&cid=89 I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find that taking a history from a patient is important:However, almost half of all coronary events , such as heart attacks, that happened during this period, happened in patients whose ECG results had not shown a... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:26:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/923312?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/923295?rsstype=latest&cid=89 A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine claims taking statins preventively can dramatically reduce the risk of heart attack in men and women with no history of heart disease, the research was funded by Crestor; PBS reports.Then on his show... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:42:34 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/923295?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/923234?rsstype=latest&cid=89 Hilarious.(via Women's Health News)topics: colbert, crestor... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:03:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/923234?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mens-health-office/923237?rsstype=latest&cid=89 When men are young, they think they're going to live forever, nothing's going to get in their way. That's why young guys do stupid things. Because they think it's not going to hurt them. Why are teenagers promiscuous in the face of HIV, hepatitis C a... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:45:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mens-health-office/923237?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/schwitzer-health/923236?rsstype=latest&cid=89 See complete Colbert clip on his NoFactZone site.Excerpts: This is a great breakthrough in the battle to find things to prescribe to people who don t need them. ...True, the drug costs $100 a month. But that is a small price to pay to not have ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:29:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/schwitzer-health/923236?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/junkfood-science/923246?rsstype=latest&cid=89 You ve no doubt heard about a study presented this week at the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans that's being reported as finding striking evidence that children who are fat or with high cholesterol have early signs o... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:13:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/junkfood-science/923246?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/acupuncture-massage-college/923227?rsstype=latest&cid=89 ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:33:12 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/acupuncture-massage-college/923227?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/923228?rsstype=latest&cid=89 Don t let high prices steer you away from fruits and vegetablesBy Abby LernerIt's hard enough to try to decipher your wife's scrawled grocery list, let alone buy her the right kind of yogurt. Then you arrive at the checkout and almost have a heart ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:59:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/923228?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/923140?rsstype=latest&cid=89 It s a tough time to be a kid! Seriously, more and more kids have food allergies. Children are sicker and fatter and taking lots of pills for hypertension and high cholesterol. And now, the American Heart Association claims obese kids have middle-a... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:52:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/disease-proof/923140?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/923155?rsstype=latest&cid=89 CoreTx is a nifty wireless device that is intended to be used by stroke victims to help restore controlled limb movement. Working with gyroscopic technology similar to the one inside of a Nintendo Wii controller, the unit tracks the precision and sp... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:00:01 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/923155?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/923047?rsstype=latest&cid=89 I first discovered Norman Doidge s book, The Brain That Changes Itself, in a May, 2007 review in the New York Times. Intrigued, but caught up in myriad end-of-school-year responsibilities, the book was put out of my mind until later that summer, wh... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:35:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/923047?rsstype=latest&cid=89 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923021?rsstype=latest&cid=89 By Val WillinghamCNN Medical Producer l love my iPod. From Etta James to Roy Rogers, my playlist is pretty diverse. Each song is part of who I am. And I guess I have a lot of parts, because I ve loaded over 4,000 songs into that tiny device. I take... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/923021?rsstype=latest&cid=89