–Fitzgerald championed Coke-backed obesity program and practiced ‘anti-aging medicine’ Serious questions are being raised about Brenda Fitzgerald, MD, the Georgia doctor who Trump is appointing to be the new head of the CDC. Fitzgerald is an ob/gyn with long involvement in Republican politics in her state. She currently serves as the Commissioner of the Georgia…
FDA Proposes Voluntary Sodium Cuts by Food Industry
June 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
–AMA, AHA, ACC, etc voice support, but not everyone agrees. After decades of discussion and inaction, the FDA today took a first concrete step toward reducing sodium levels in the general population: It issued draft guidance for voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry. The FDA said that the new recommendations come from “leading…
Rise In Popularity Of E-Cigarettes Sparks Concerns And Recommendations
August 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The recent dramatic rise in popularity of e-cigarettes threatens to reverse hard-fought progress in the war against smoking, according to a new policy statement from the American Heart Association. “E-cigarettes have caused a major shift in the tobacco-control landscape,” said the lead author of the statement, Aruni Bhatnagar, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Louisville. But…
CDC: 35 Million Americans Have Uncontrolled Hypertension
September 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
According to the Centers for Disease Control, new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) shows: 30.4% of US adults (about 66.9 million people) have hypertension. 53.5% have uncontrolled hypertension (about 35.8 million people). 39.4% with uncontrolled hypertension (about 14.1 million) are unaware that they have hypertension. 89.4% with uncontrolled hypertension have a “usual source…
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