Heart Health Blog

A new study presented at the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions (conducted virtually in 2020), found that consuming chili peppers on a regula...

I don’t know about you but this has been one very long and seemingly unending week! No matter your political persuasion, stress levels have been quite high. But...

Whereas Ben Franklin and our Founding Fathers would have worked tirelessly to prevent/control spread of COVID-19, current pandemic messaging contains reverse lo...

25 years ago today, my wife Lisa and I had our first date.  Months earlier, we met each other the old fashioned way, at one of Baltimore’s landmark watering hol...

My father-in-law Paul, was born on this date (October 17) in 1916, two years before the dreaded Spanish Flu Pandemic and more than a decade before the Great Dep...

In recent weeks, two prestigious scientific journals took the unprecedented step of denouncing President Trump’s handling of COVID-19. In the most recent editio...

Now that the President, First Lady and others have contracted COVID-19, presumably linked to last week’s Rose Garden Event where COVID restrictions were neither...

Recently U.S. News & World Report published a list of the overall healthiest communities in the nation. Check out Kristen Fischer’s piece in Verywell Health tha...

This past week, I had the pleasure of being a guest on Gill Eapen’s Podcast, “Scientific Sense” where we discussed the latest evidence related to COVID-19 and t...

With one of my daughters returning to college over the weekend, I reminded her that she needs to remain diligent both on and off campus, to wear a mask, to soci...

With one of my daughters returning to college over the weekend, I reminded her that she needs to remain diligent both on and off campus, to wear a mask, to soci...

At the international European Society of Cardiology meetings last week, a new study revealed that many “sudden” heart related events were actually not so sudden...