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ACE Inhibitor Not Protective Against Heart Damage from Chemotherapy

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David Austin, MD “We did not see evidence that we could reduce this biomarker of cardiotoxicity during chemotherapy [with an ACE inhibitor],” said David Austin, MD , consultant cardiologist at the academic cardiovascular unit in James Cook University Hospital , South Tees, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, and the study’s lead author.

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All about mTOR (Part II): Amino Acids, mTOR, and Athletes

Physiologically Speaking

During that time with Jack, I saw an entirely different world of medicine, one in which hundreds of thousands of doctors, scientists, and laboratory geniuses are racing to find the cure for cancer, to save so many lives. 4 Uncontrolled proliferation and cell growth is, in many cases, referred to as cancer. Academic Press.

Cancer 98
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The real heart disease gender gap and the cardiologists that get it all wrong.

Dr. Anish Koka

The only trouble with the 2018 stats from the American Heart Association that are dutifully amplified by a professor of cardiology at a major academic hospital is that it is completely misleading.

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and NYU Langone Health Expand Partnership to Include Adult Congenital Heart Disease

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NYU Langone Health has long been heralded as a patient-centered, integrated academic medical center, known for its excellence in clinical care, research, and education. More information: www.nyu.org , www. atlantichealth.org If you enjoy this content, please share it with a colleague

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All about mTOR (Part II): Amino Acids, mTOR, and Athletes

Physiologically Speaking

During that time with Jack, I saw an entirely different world of medicine, one in which hundreds of thousands of doctors, scientists, and laboratory geniuses are racing to find the cure for cancer, to save so many lives. 4 Uncontrolled proliferation and cell growth is, in many cases, referred to as cancer. Academic Press.

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What is corruption – and why does it matter so much?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

This is the man who, along with Bradford Hill, proved that smoking causes lung cancer. This was for a review which cleared vinyl chloride of causing cancer – of any kind. This review was then used to defend the use of this chemical – now well recognised to be a cancer-causing agent – for over a decade.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

It would be like diagnosing women with metastatic breast cancer, but finding that just as many women with metastatic breast cancer were alive in 5 years as women not diagnosed with breast cancer. If women have more MINOCA, but the diagnosis doesn’t lead to a worse prognosis… who cares? ” What is going on?