A new trial was conducted looking at the effect of beta-blockers on heart attack patients and the results are really surprising. For the last 40 years 80% of heart attack patients are prescribed a beta-blocker upon release from the hospital after a heart attack. The REBOOT trial separated over 8000 patients into 2 pools where […]
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that the state would soon remove all vaccine mandates, including ones for schoolchildren. This is a wild development in the vaccination story and one I certainly did not see coming. I figured we would see an end to the covid mandates but not in my wildest dreams […]
A few weeks ago I talked about the show, The Biggest Loser and since then, I have been thinking about all those poor contestants that wrecked their health trying to lose weight in the most unhealthy ways imaginable. Turns out starving yourself and working out for hours a day is great for the short term […]
Scientists have just transplanted a pig lung into a human recipient for the first time. The donor was brain dead and the lung only lasted for 9 days but it is a huge step in the world of xenotransplantation, the science of transplanting animal organs into humans. The first xenotransplantation was performed in 1905, when […]
Last week I was at 249.4, this week I am at 248.6, a loss of .8 lbs. Not bad! I’ll take it but it is a little short of my goal of at least a pound (maybe 2) or weight loss per week. This week I have family over and one night they got us […]
