How Should a Patient With Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain Be Treated?

How Should a Patient with Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain be Treated?
The ways in which cocaine use can cause myocardial ischemia and MI are multifactorial. A vigorous central sympathomimetic effect, coronary artery vasoconstriction, stimulation of platelets, and enhanced atherosclerosis all lead to a myocardial oxygen … Read more on The Hospitalist Online

Rich Food, Poor Food Authors on Choosing a Nutrient-Rich Diet and Avoiding
As with another recent favorite, Chubster, the underlying theme of Rich Food, Poor Food is to eat smart and use common sense. But what a doctor or … The Caltons spent their [very extended] honeymoon traveling to 100 different countries over six years … Read more on Houston Press (blog)

Tylenol & Death Anxiety: Pain Reliever Eases 'Existential Dread,' Study Suggests
"We've suspected that this brain region also is central in managing violations of expectations and errors, and as such predicted Tylenol would have the same effect on manipulations of uncertainty or existential unease that it has on headaches or … Read more on Huffington Post