What Doctors Don't Tell YouLowering cholesterol levels before a patient has a balloon angioplasty operation does not stop or delay the veins closing up again. ...
Angioplasty the surgical technique for unblocking arteries is not quite the modern wonder of the medical world it has been claimed to be. ...
This so called miracle preventative for heart attacks usually isn't necessary. When it is, the effects don't last. The number of deaths from heart disease reads like a terrifying roll call of modern times: in 1989, 1 million people died of heart...
If you suffer a mild heart attack, your chances of survival are better if the hospital does not immediately operate but instead adopts conservative management of the condition. ...
Just six months of homocysteine-lowering therapy with vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid can substantially reduce the risk of cardiac events, say Swiss researchers.
If ever there was a month that demonstrated how little medicine knows what it's doing, it has to be this one. In the same month, we find out that estrogen doesn't protect against heart disease, a ...
B6: MAN THE BARRICADES AGAIN
Yet more evidence has been found of the dubious long term benefits of angioplasty that supposed miracle cure, balloon inflating procedure touted as a less invasive method of treating constricted h ...
The January 2003 issue of WDDTY (vol 13 no 10) on page 10 included a paragraph suggesting that a less invasive technique than angioplasty working by dissolving blockages had been found.
A recent study and editorial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologists (19:946-7) casts doubt on the entire concept of coronary angioplasty, that recently developed technique, now mo ...
