The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. ...more

December 27, 2009

The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. About 133 million Americans live with at least one chronic disease and more than one in 10 have three or more. Your humble author is well acquainted with these numbers in so far as 18 months ago I received a new lease on life, a liver in an 8-hour transplant surgery. The costs are staggering. Chronic disease accounts for 75 percent of the more than $2 trillion spent on health care each year. Coronary heart disease alone, which afflicts 16.8 million Americans, costs some $165 billion a year. ...more

December 27, 2009

Hearts were pumping for a cause Saturday as thousands pounded the pavement at the Tampa Bay Start! Heart Walk at Raymond James Stadium. ...more

November 15, 2009

Find out more about the silent killer atherosclerosis. ...more

June 15, 2009

Can decreasing salt even a little improve your risk for heart disease, stroke and death? The answer is a resounding yes. ...more

March 25, 2009

perhaps unfairly - gets a rap for being rife with unhealthy food choices. Yet research shows that the region's native grape may be one of the most nutritious snacks around. The muscadine offers as many, if not more, nutritional benefits as noni, acai, pomegranate and all the other so-called "wonder fruits" people try to wrestle into their diets. ...more

November 15, 2008

Physicians and internists, when confronted with patients who are stressed out and show signs of heart problems, are more likely to chalk up the symptoms to anxiety if the sufferer is a woman, a study found. ...more

October 13, 2008

Author Jennifer McLagan makes a case for the maligned ingredient. Suet, anyone? ...more

September 30, 2008

California on Friday became the first state to ban trans-fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the artery-clogger from menus. ...more

July 26, 2008

It is not that infrequent anymore that a patient's past medical history in my cardiology practice would include "sudden death" along with gallbladder surgery, hysterectomy, hypertension, diabetes, etc. That is because many people, under the right circumstances, can survive sudden cardiac death and live to tell their story. ...more

June 9, 2008