Can an ECG lead placement device improve clinical trials?
By Michael J Koren, MD FACC
 Sometimes the simplest ideas can be the most effective. As a clinical research cardiologist, I have had the experience of waiting for an electrocardiogram (ECG) to rule out heart disease in a patient... Read More
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Treating strokes with a small heart device
By Joseph Moore, MD
A sea captain, several hundred miles off the coast of West Africa, wakes up unable to move his right arm. He is flown to a hospital in the Azores for treatment and is found to have had a small stroke.... Read More
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What’s in Gila Monster Saliva that Treats Diabetes AND Helps You Lose Weight?
By Charles Booras, MD
The Gila Monster (a poisonous lizard) only eats four times a year! To regulate glucose (sugar) after such infrequent eating it will release a substance called exendin to “turn on the pancreas” and dig... Read More
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Are you ready for some weight loss?
By Jeff Jacqmein, MD
Many of us are. Virtually every day that I see patients I hear, "But doc, I do diet and exercise." I know many of you do. And many of you have trouble maintaining your ideal body weight... Read More
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Pacemaker to treat heart failure – Fact or Fiction?
By Trevor Greene, MD
You may have heard about the growing buzz in the cardiology world -pacemakers to treat heart failure – but is this idea backed by scientific fact or is it high-tech fiction?
Congestive heart failur... Read More
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