Category Archives: Heart Attack
Breast Cancer and Risk of Radiation on Your Heart
A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine that came out today showed that women who receive radiotherapy for breast cancer have a higher risk of ischemic heart disease. The authors studied 2168 women who had radiotherapy for … Continue reading
Long Term Life Insurance – What You Need to Know
Long term life insurance is one of those things that many people wish they had purchased if and when they need it; but many of my patients really don’t understand what it is, why they need it or when to … Continue reading
Diabetic Heart Disease – Bypass Better Than Stent – Freedom Study
For people with diabetes, heart disease is one of the most serious complications. And people with heart disease and partially blocked arteries often are candidates for preventing a heart attack. the choices for now are doing open heart surgery and … Continue reading
Heart Attacks in Women – What You Need To Know
I want to share this interview I did with Puja Mehta, a cardiologist at the Barbara Streisand Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Here she discusses heart attacks in women and what you need to know. Men and women have such different symptoms … Continue reading
New Kronos KEEPS Study Finds Estrogen Safe for Menopause
Ten years ago the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study changed our view of how to treat low estrogen. The study of 161,880 postmenopausal women questioned the safety of estrogen. The study found that there was a higher risk of breast … Continue reading
Vitamin D Prevents Heart Disease in Menopause
Your always hearing people talking about vitamins. The term comes from the words vital and amines – vitamins. These are substances that your body needs to live and be healthy. Vitamin D is the only vitamin that your body can … Continue reading
What the Dalai Lama Says About Stress
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Americans Don’t Know What To Do In A Medical Emergency
Would you know what to do in a medical emergency? What about some type of disaster? If you’re like half of Americans recently surveyed by Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation and reported by Mary Elizabeth Dallas, you don’t have … Continue reading
Sodas Increase Heart Attack, Diabetes
Sodas were again in the news and this time for increasing the risk of heart attack and diabetes. You can see my blog post about this on FeedingAmerica.org. As you’ll see, cutting back on sodas or cutting them out altogether … Continue reading
OJ Keeps Strokes Away in Perimenopause & Menopause
New findings from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) found that citrus fruits, oranges and grapefruits in particular, lower stroke risk by 20% for women in perimenopause and menopause. It seems the reason is flavanones, a subclass of flavonoids. These findings … Continue reading
