Brand New Cancer Treatment Drugs; How Good Are They?

Cancer is one of the scariest things we can and will face in our lifetimes.  It’s a very emotional time and we become susceptible to hopes and infer things unsaid from our doctors. Some cancers we do exceedingly well with treatment.  Others, not so much so.  And for those that we don’t have effective treatments […]

Irregular Heartbeat Cures: Forget Meds and Rely on this Instead

I have covered the topic of irregular heartbeats like atrial fibrillation and what you can do to fix the problem in previous articles. A visit to your cardiologist will leave you with instructions to cut caffeine intake and stress and likely a prescription for a beta blocker and maybe a blood thinner if there is […]

Had a Heart Attack? Skip the Meds and Do this Instead

While having a heart attack is never a good thing, it does not mean life is over. Or at least, if you make the right choices. Regular readers of the Rantings will of course know where this conversation is going.  Newer readers will likely not be shocked either.  So why, given that we all know […]

Surprising Trait of Spouse May Improve Your Health and Life

  Optimistic people are fun to be around; negative people drain you. What if the boost from optimism or drain from pessimism was not limited to emotional effects? When you ask someone how his or her day is going, do you REALLY want to know that he or she had a flat tire on the […]

Had a Heart Attack? 3 Critical Things to Know

After your heart attack you want to do everything possible to prevent a second event. But few things will be as powerful as the choices you will make now. Whether you had an actual heart attack with resulting damage to the heart, or had a stent put in or the full blown open heart surgery […]