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...course, one factor we risk losing track of in all this is the healing power of the doctor as a human being willing to tune in to you. Dr. Colin Phoon, a pediatric cardiologist at the New York University School of Medicine, writes in a provocative essay titled "Must Doctors Still Examine Patients?" that being examined "has a calming effect on anxious patients, [and] a placebo effect on somatic but nonorganic complaints." Touch, we seem at risk of forgetting, is a basic part of the healing process, a fundamental expression of caring. Yes, an echocardiogram is technically better than...
...reactive protein (CRP), indicate a runaway inflammatory process and are better predictors of heart attacks than cholesterol.) Could the same be true for diabetes? "In 2001, when we published our first paper on inflammation and diabetes, everybody thought we were just wrong," recalls Dr. Paul Ridker, a cardiologist at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. "Now there are half a dozen studies confirming that if you measure markers of inflammation, and CRP in particular, you can do a good job of predicting who's going to get diabetes...
According to published reports this summer, Bill and Hillary Clinton are on the South Beach Diet, the Atkins-rivaling low-carb plan created by a Florida cardiologist...
...Steven Nissen, the cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who conducted the research, wasn't prepared to tell me that I should start taking Lipitor. But he thinks this study could change the way doctors look at cholesterol profiles like mine, because the findings suggest that the lower the bad cholesterol level the better. If further studies support this thesis, the government may be under pressure to reduce its recommended LDL level to below...
...average of 4.2%--about 10 times better than statins, the most effective drugs now on the market, and in the almost unbelievably short period of just five weeks. With only 47 patients, the study was too small to be definitive, but, says Dr. Daniel Rader, the University of Pennsylvania cardiologist who wrote an accompanying editorial in J.A.M.A., "it's very exciting for the field. It's something that I think no one expected. It really has everyone scratching their heads...