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Moogfest, the Z-pak, the QT interval and Sudden Cardiac Death

The skeptical cardiologist was planning on attending Moogfest 2014 in Asheville, North Carolina last weekend. I was going with the old friend and life coach of the skeptical cardiologist (OFLCSC) and...

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Low T and Me: Does Testosterone Therapy Increase Cardiovascular Risk?

In the last year, several of my patients have asked me whether it is safe for them to take testosterone for “low T.” They were responding to media reports suggesting that testosterone therapy raised...

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Foxglove Equipoise

I came across the word equipoise, used eight times, in a recent, brief editorial entitled “Digoxin: In the Cross Hairs Again.” It’s not a word I hear outside of medical circles but it serves a great...

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What Cold Medications Are Safe For My Heart: 2016 Update

The most popular  skeptical cardiologist post is one written a year ago concerning over-the-counter (OTC)  cold medications. Little has changed in the 8 billion dollar world of useless and confusing...

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What Pain Medications Are Safe For My Heart?

The skeptical cardiologist is frequently asked by patients if it is OK to take certain pain medications. Yesterday, I got a variation on this  when a patient called and indicated that he had been...

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Do Statins Cause Memory Loss? The Science, The Media, The Statin-Denialist...

The Skeptical Cardiologist was recently contacted by a television reporter  working on a segment about statins. and looking for a cardiologist to interview who “is concerned about the cognitive side...

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What’s The Best Treatment For Seasickness? Part I, What Won’t Work Well

While stocking up on key items for our Galapagos cruise, the eternal fiancée of the skeptical cardiologist (EFOSC) bought an item that set off the skeptical cardiologist’s (extremely sensitive) BS...

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Becoming Enlightened About More Stringent Blood Pressure Goals: Sapere Aude!

The skeptical cardiologist and many of his patients with hypertension have a decision to make: what should our BP goal be? Given that we have data now on over 1 million patients one might think that...

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Is Pitavastatin (Livalo) A Better Statin For You?

The skeptical cardiologist recognizes that perhaps 10% of patients he starts on a statin drug will develop symptoms that are felt to be due to the drug. Most often the symptom is myalgia-muscle ache....

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How Important Are Grapefruit (OR CBD Oil)-drug Interactions? David Bailey vs...

Previously, the skeptical cardiologist described a patient  with atrial fibrillation who was taking the blood thinner apixaban (Eliquis ) and developed a nose bleed after consuming a large amount of...

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Is there a Yelp for Medications and should you be using it?

The skeptical cardiologist recently prescribed ezetimibe to a patient who was leery of taking statin drugs for her elevated cholesterol. In the past she had taken red yeast rice in the belief that this...

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Is An Unneeded Beta-Blocker Making You Feel Logy?

The skeptical cardiologist saw a patient recently who  had undergone stenting of a 95% blocked right coronary artery. Mr Jones had presented  a year ago to our ER 2 days after he first began...

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Very Cool Cartoon On Side Effects Of Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) For GERD

The skeptical cardiologist not uncommonly recommends OTC Prilosec (omeprazole), a proton pump inhibitor for cardiac patients with chest pain that is from acid reflux (GERD). Lately, however, some...

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You Should Stop Taking Zantac (Ranitidine) Now

On September 13 of this year Valisure, an online pharmacy, submitted a  Citizen Petition to the FDA and urged it to  pull all ranitidine (brand name Zantac) from the market. Ranitidine, an H-2 blocker,...

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Statins And Memory Loss: The Latest Findings

In 2017 I wrote a post  entitled “Do Statins Cause Memory Loss? The Science, The Media, The Statin-Denialist Cult, and The Nocebo Effect” which concluded that there was no scientific evidence for...

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What Cold Medications Are Safe For My Heart: 2020 Update

Little has changed in the 8 billion dollar world of useless and confusing over the counter (OTC)  cold, flu, and sinus medications since I wrote: “What Cold Medications Are Safe For My Heart” in 2015....

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Nebivolol (Bystolic), the uniquely well-tolerated beta-blocker, is now...

There is good news for those patients taking the beta-blocker drug Bystolic: it is now available as a generic (nebivolol) at a substantially lower price. Given nebivolol’s uniquely low side effect...

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