Recently, I noticed a flyer in my local newspaper advertising an upcoming stroke prevention screening and since the flyer was so misleading and from a...
Do you lift weights? I do, four days a week: Monday, chest; Tuesday, legs; Wednesday, shoulders; Thursday, arms; and abs, everyday! Now, Dr. Fuhrman r...
This is a collection of articles I have found interesting in the weekly editions of the big five medical journals: NEJM, JAMA, Annals, Lancet and BM...
MORE ABOUT TIM RUSSERT PREDICTING HEART ATTACKS AND THINGS TO LOWER THE CHANCES OF SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST AND A HEART ATTACKSome have suggested that t...
Brian KlepperOK, I'll admit it. I love reading the obituaries. They recount the marvelous achievements as well as, occasionally, the equally glaring f...
Brian Klepper California always seems to be ahead on things that matter. A CNN story this week highlights that state's terrific anti-obesity TV campa...
by Bill Bestermann, MDThe medication rosiglitazone or Avandia has been the subject of a great deal of controversy in recent months and there have bee...
A recent study from the Mayo Clinic, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI, vol. 99, p. 825, 2007), looks at the relationshi...
Picked up a nice-looking new book this afternoon, the first issue of a planned yearly anthology by The Dana Foundation: Cerebrum 2007, with a foreward...
Dr. Diana Fite, fully recovered after a stroke. From the NY Times 052807There is a pretty amazing story in the NY Times about an emergency physician, ...