Most Recent Articles from Harvard Heart Letter

• Heart failure drug poses potassium problems. 

  When using "the water pill" spironolactone, watch your potassium intake and check your levels. The old adage "many hands make light work"...

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• Searching for better heart disease tests. 

  Estimating your chances of having a heart attack isn't an exact science. Do you remember the classic scene from old Westerns, when one of the...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

• Heart beat; Flying high with heart trouble 

  If worries about your heart keep you from traveling by plane, then recommendations from two Yale doctors might ease your mind. Air travel is...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

• Ask the doctor; With Vioxx gone, what can I do for my aches and pains that won't harm my heart? 

  Q The news that Vioxx was pulled from the market rattled me, since I had been taking it for my arthritis for almost two years. I have heard both...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

• Speaking up to ease chest pain. 

  In spite of clear guidelines for treating angina, many people don't get the treatments they need for chronic chest pain. As conditions go, chest...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

• How qualified are health claims for food? 

  Health claims' efforts to balance free speech with solid evidence could leave you confused. In 2003, food makers got the green light to slap...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

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