There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.