Red Meat: A Healthy Choice?
In the wake of the meteoric rise and fall of the Atkins Diet, the concept of eating red meat in recent years has taken a beating in the wider public consciousness. From books like Fast Food Nation —...
View ArticleCardiac Arrest’s Heartwarming Hope: Hypothermia
The woman was sitting in a friend’s car laughing at a joke when suddenly she slumped over, unresponsive. The panicked driver had the presence of mind to speed 15 blocks to the nearest hospital, the...
View ArticleTranscendental Meditation Mitigates Depression
With a plethora of research suggesting otherwise, few would argue that meditation yields no health benefits. But the sheer number of claims regarding meditation’s benefits is overwhelming: A quick...
View ArticleIs American Medicine Too Stent Happy?
Chances are you know someone with a stent. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of Americans walking around today owe their lives to a miniscule piece of mesh called a coronary stent used to prop...
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Stunting Stents
The results of a three-year study showing coronary bypass grafts were often better than drug-eluting stents for patients with severe heart disease may not surprise cardiologists and astute patients who...
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Making Medical Miracles With Inkjet Printers
You’ve probably owned an inkjet printer or two — one of those homely plastic boxes that performs mundane functions like scanning pictures and spitting out boarding passes while running through pricy...
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Pol Pot’s Legacy: Cambodian Refugees in Poor Health
Sobin weeps and curls tightly into herself, as if she’s trying to disappear into the folds of her overstuffed sofa. Moments later, scowling, she plants her feet and shouts in Khmer. She shakes her fist...
View ArticleClassical Music Boosts Heart Transplant Survival in Mice
Music may or may not mend a broken heart. But newly published research suggests that, at least in mice, it can reduce rejection of heart transplants. Writing in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, a...
View ArticleMeditation: Strong Preventative Medicine for Heart Patients
Meditation is usually thought of as a practice of healthy, well-off white people and Asians. But newly published research suggests it can produce hugely significant health benefits in a very different...
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How to Stay Healthy Even if You Can’t Avoid Stress on the Job
Being under stress at work is tied to a higher risk of heart problems, new research confirms—but putting down the beer bottle and going for a walk may help. Researchers found that job strain—defined as...
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Saturated Fads: Butter Is Back Only Because Our Biases Remain
A report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on March 17 left meat eaters salivating. The meta-analysis of over 70 studies explored the comparative impact of saturated fat (found in meat,...
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