March 11, 2024 Cardiology Unless I am missing something, I have ethical concerns about the EpiDose study because people cannot give verbal or written consent to participate.
March 9, 2024 Cardiology Diet drinks may boost risk of dangerous heart condition by 20%, study says. Can we please stop the reporting of food-questionnaire-extrapolate-the-data-towards-meaningless-non-causal-relationships stories that have zero impact on clinical practice?
January 24, 2024 Cardiology New centre of excellence established at the Ottawa Heart Institute for rare cardiac diseases.
January 23, 2024 Cardiology Carrying emergency Aspirin for use for suspected heart attack can help reduce the risk of further heart damage. If used, you must call 911 for further assessment and treatment.
October 19, 2023 Cardiology 1 in 3 Canadians don’t know the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest, poll finds.
January 6, 2023 Cardiology Study concludes that cryoablation treatment of Atrial Fibrillation was “associated with a lower incidence of persistent atrial fibrillation or recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmia over 3 years of follow-up than initial use of antiarrhythmic drugs.”
November 8, 2022 Cardiac Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) presented new data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that catheter ablation may be better than antiarrhythmic drugs at halting disease progression.
October 26, 2022 Cardiology New research shows non-nicotine-containing e-cigarettes cause cardiac arrhythmias in mouse models. Human studies required to follow up on this finding.
June 11, 2021 Cardiology CDC and other regulators working to assess risk and if there is a causal relationship between mRNA vaccines and myo/pericarditis seen predominately in a small number of males 16-24 years old after 2nd dose.
May 20, 2021 Cardiology Research presented at American College of Cardiology meeting states that 19 per cent of people with hypertension are taking other OTC or prescription meds that elevate their blood pressure. Awaiting published study.