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I don’t know whether it is a bad few weeks for cardiologists or not, but a new article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) entitled How M

Men.  They are the yin to my yang, the jelly to my peanut butter, the Sonny to my Cher.  You get my point.

Senator Rand Paul was recently assaulted and sustained multiple rib fractures.

Upon seeing what he deemed a poorly-constructed paper by a colleague in physics, Wolfgang Pauli is apocryphally said to have, "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

Very smart people sometimes fall prey to very bad ideas.

Before the 1920s, statistics weren't standardized in the world of scientific experimentation. How many trials were done and how many samples per trial were determined by not much more than the intuition of the experimenter. 

The world of interventional cardiology was rocked last week with a study showing that stenting, placing a tiny metal scaffold to open up a single coronary artery to relieve chest pain (angina) was no better than optimal medical management.

As tempting as it is, freaking out about most anything -- especially infectious diseases -- tends to render us useless and is not in our best interest. In recent years, Zika and Ebola caused a stir, even a national hysteria.

Senator Rand Paul was assaulted and sustained multiple rib fractures, according to published reports. He tweeted, “Kelley and I appreciate the overwhelming support after Friday’s unfortunate event.

As the nation moves more and more, state by state, towards normalizing recreational marijuana use, there's a continuing need to better understand how the drug affects different segments of society.