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...least that's what doctors used to think. But Dr. Paul Ridker has changed that and the way doctors treat heart disease. A cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he has spent the past decade exposing an alliance between the infection-fighting immune system and heart disease that could finally explain one of the biggest health puzzles in recent decades: If cholesterol is such a major contributor to the nation's No. 1 killer, why do half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels...
Barr, D. W.; Bearcovitch, G.; Beauregard, P. G. T.; Bixler, F. D.; Bodman, E. D.; Boggs, S. T.; Borra, M. J.; Brigham, G.; Brooks, R. A.; Bryan, R. C.; Burgess, D., Jr.; Butler...
...Ahern instead focused on techniques that helped patients restructure their thinking so that they could “fully understand their symptoms and what they mean,” Barsky, who is also director of psychiatric research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Sit down, put on a pot and chalk up another entry in the list of ways that tea drinking may be good for you. Researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston - a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital - have found new evidence that ordinary tea may prime the immune system to fend off attacks from bacteria and other pathogens. "This is the first report of tea affecting the immune system," says Dr. Jack Bukowski, a rheumatologist...
...Ridker and his colleagues at Brigham and Women's had shown that healthy middle-aged men with the highest CRP levels were three times as likely to suffer a heart attack in the next six years as were those with the lowest CRP levels. Eventually, inflammation experts determined that having a CRP reading of 3.0 mg/L or higher can triple your risk of heart disease. The danger seems even greater in women than in men. By contrast, folks with extremely low levels of CRP, less than 0.5 mg/L, rarely have heart attacks...