THE VIRTUOSO

All areas of study and action have their virtuoso. That person who is ‘first among equals’; George Washington was most famously, known by this phrase. So too in medicine, there are great specialists and then there are others who are acknowledged as being just a slight cut above those of highest caliber. Here in The …

STATIN SAFETY REVIEWED AND FOUND TRUE

Despite this, there is a grass-roots effort to discredit these medications based on the concerns that they cause a multiplicity of side effects including dementia most importantly. These has been very little signal among users that these issues are developing, and to add to the scientific understanding, the American Heart Association undertook an extensive review …

THE CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS STILL HOLDS…NEW MEDICATION SHOWS BENEFIT

The internet is full of untruths, especially when it comes to comments and concerns about statin therapy. There is a grass-roots effort by the non-medical community to impugn the CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS, a foundational concept in cardiovascular medicine that hold that higher level of cholesterol (LDL/bad fraction) increases the risk of heart disease and lowering this …

WHEN PIGS FLY……PROBABLY SOMETIME SOON

I’ve written before about human organ transplantation that is about to become a reality as genetic engineering of pigs allows us to eliminate the barriers to trans-species transplantation (xenografting).  We already use pigs for valve transplantation and in the previous generations, for producing insulin and heparin. Using the latest techniques of genetic engineering made possible …