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Totally non-heart related, unless you include the love lives of trees... I have a desperate tree. I've been planting pawpaws for years, but only one has grown to size. The rest die, no matter where I get them from, or where I plant them. Right now, that tree is massively covered with...

Found this the other day. A little ray of sunshine. Hope it continues to work out the way it has so far... http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/22/experimental-cholesterol-drug-results-called-game-changing/?hpt=hp_t3 :biggrin2: Down with statins! :biggrin2: Best wishes,

Multaq is the less-toxic product that was developed to replace the effective, but dangerous arrhythmia drug Amiodorone. Now it seems it's not good for those with A-Fib or heart failure. http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/ucm243762.htm Best wishes,

We all realize that the effects of prescription medicines are not always as selective as they appear to be, at least in some patients. And sometimes, their effects don't show up right away, so we tend not to associate them to the drug. So let it be with beta blockers. Some months after I...

Possible Stem Cell progress: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/14/health/stem-cells-heart-damage-reverse/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Read an interesting article about coronary heart disaease, and a seeming link to the metabolism of phosphatidyl choline, a substance related to B vitamins most commonly known as lecithin (haven't checked - this may already be posted by someone). The byproducts of choline reportedly can predict...

Bristol-Myers Squibb initiated a voluntary recall of one lot of 1,000-count bottles of Coumadin (warfarin sodium) Crystalline 5 mg tablets. Company testing of tablets from a returned bottle found a tablet to be higher in potency than expected. The lot number affected in the U.S. is 9H49374A with...

Just an FDA update regarding a very bad, but also rare possible side effect the use of Multaq. Although it shows as a quote, I have deleted some text from the end of the email that was not a part of the product information and some blank spacing lines to save space:

There are some things of interest brewing regarding the cause of aortic calcification. Two things have recently come up as having statistical relationships with rates of incidence and even speed of calcification. First, vitamin D absorption abnormalities are being linked with calcific aortic...

I love these stories debunking health myths. This one is from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/31/rs.12.health.myths/index.html?iref=obnetwork Best wishes,

It will take a few years more of trials before use with valves, but the new anti-clotting drugs are still moving forward successfully. Trials are finishing now and in the next few months for Xarelto and Apixaban for DVT (deep vein thrombosis), and AFib trials are underway. If they pass all...

Don't know if these are already common knowledge, but I ran across them today. At the risk of looking foolish for not knowing, I'm going to trot these out these three products: Quikclot Sport Brand Advanced Clotting Sponge Swift First Aid Bloodstopper Sterile Multi-purpose Wound and Trauma...

From a recent FDA notice. Please be aware that they are not saying that it increases cancer risk at this time, but are noting that there is some early data to be aware of. Again, this is not a panic situation at all, and just means you should reassess your own perceived risk. Best wishes,

The FDA will host a webinar about the FDA inspection process on Thursday, March 25, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. ET. It will last for only 30 minutes, but FDA experts will invite questions from the public on how FDA conducts inspections. http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm205369.htm...

More info for discussions with your dentist regarding being on ACT for dental procedures... From the Journal of the American Dental Association: http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/131/1/77 MYTHS OF DENTAL SURGERY IN PATIENTS RECEIVING ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY MICHAEL J. WAHL, D.D.S. But...

Food for thought... Still deep concerns about health product quality in India. A current article recounts a bust at a major surgical supplier who was supplying hospitals with counterfeit surgical products, labeled as if they were made by Johnson & Johnson. Unable to get a response from their...

This is the reworked verison of Amiodorone, which is minus the troublesome iodine...

This is a very topical treatment of a recent study, and should be taken with a grain of salt. And, of course, it centers mostly on vascular heart issues. However, it's an interesting thing to look into, and may hold value for some of us...

An interesting article available through Reuters seems to indicate that results of current Beating Heart procedures may not be as alluring as had been hoped: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5A35LO20091105 Time and technology may close the gap again. Best wishes,

I was finally able to pick up Mo on Tuesday afternoon, in the pouring rain. She is still very shy, but is starting to pick up confidence. We were concerned about Dora, the cat, and how they'd get along. But the Dora's attitude the very first night was, "Oh, I had one of these before. I...