As many of you know I’m all about PREVENTION, and given that I want to PREVENT a deluge of congratulatory, but ultimately misplaced text messages, emails, and possibly even postcards, I wanted to clear up a few things. Although there…
We were down to our last ½ tub of Cottage Cheese, and given that it’s one of the three things I eat, my daughter and I were forced to make an emergency run to Fred Meyer. And after we secured…
Most people think chameleons are pretty cool, and the ability to possess panoramic vision and change colors seems superficially awesome. But when the going REALLY gets tough, chameleons are pretty helpless against predators. They can’t really run from larger enemies…
It’s tricky With drug design To stop the PCSK9 It’s tricky! (Tricky, tricky, tricky)! –Rumored Lipid Remix of Run DMC’s iconic hit “It’s Tricky” Unpublished data suggests that Lipid Learning is enhanced when disseminated in hip-hop format, and I’ve been…
Those of you who have gone through medical programs probably remember when you first started learning how to read x-rays. They’d usually start us off with some easy ones, like a light bulb wedged up someone’s pelvic cavity or a…
I love anniversaries, and recently my wife and I celebrated our 13th Wedding Anniversary! And that pretty much takes care of the Life and Love parts of this website. But for the “Lipids” section, we can celebrate the 20th Anniversary…
Today’s big news in Lipid Land is that the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor was approved by the FDA! The generic name of this agent, which mechanistically is a macrocyclic peptide, is enlicitide, and I prefer to stick with that since…
We live in a United States that is anything but united on so many topics. Pontifications over Politics. Conflicts over Cholesterol. Squabbles over Censorship…and of course, the G.O.A.T debates of Jordan vs LeBron vs Kobe. But I didn’t anticipate the…
Are you better off now because you met me? Did I truly listen in your time of need? I cannot lie, I spoke truth, of course But how was it uttered? With grace or blunt force? Did I just talk,…
The initial CAUGHT-CAD Trial results basically reinforced the “Got Plaque? Get a CAC!” approach to identifying coronary disease and intervening BEFORE the plaque becomes problematic. People aged 40 to 70 with a family history of premature cardiovascular disease underwent testing…
