The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
From Eric Topol
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
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