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CardioBuzz: Is Marijuana Bad for Your Heart?
Whether marijuana actually causes cardiovascular problems remains unclear, a situation that was not necessarily helped by a study based on 35 reports of cannabis-related complications in France, a country with about 1.2 million recreational users.
Apr 24, 2014
Cardiologist Who Revealed Echo Errors Out of a Job
MILWAUKEE -- A cardiologist whose research at a national medical meeting revealed that other doctors at her hospital were misreading a substantial number of diagnostic echocardiograms has been fired by that hospital, the Journal Sentinel and Bվ have learned.
Jan 14, 2011
AHA: FDA Drops Clopidogrel Bomb at AHA
ORLANDO -- The FDA has issued a public health advisory warning patients and physicians that concommitant use of clopidogrel (Plavix) and omeprazole (Prilosec and Prilosec OTC) blunts the antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel, so the combination should be avoided.
Nov 17, 2009