Blog Posts in Heart Disease

Those who hike often know to check themselves for deer ticks after every outing. Deer ticks (or blacklegged or bear ticks) are small, bloodsucking parasites that attach themselves to various animals. ...

Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer When we think about gluten sensitivity, we immediately think about celiac disease. Scientists are finally beginning to realize what those ...

Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories according to the Quackwatch naysayer. Alternative Heart Treatment Moving Into the Mainstream according to a Newsmax Health report published ...

Heart attacks were practically unknown in the nineteenth century. Prior to 1925, there was almost no knowledge of the illness that today we call myocardial infarction. By the early 1940′s, heart ...

The figure above shows a Warthin-Starry stain of cardiac tissue demonstrating Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in one of three patients whose death was associated with Lyme carditis during November ...

In 1988, at a lecture given before the American Heart Association, DeWitt S. Goodman MD spoke about the many efforts which were being made to educate both patients and physicians in the benefits of ...