No, Drinking Coffee Won’t Save Your Life Or Prevent Heart Attacks

March 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Once again the media has swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker. Following the publication of a  a new study in the journal Heart last night, hundreds of news reports have now appeared extolling the miraculous benefits of coffee. Here’s just one typical headline from the Los Angeles Times: “Another reason to drink coffee: It’s good for your heart, study…

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The PREVAIL Fail Revisited: Spinning The Truth

March 17, 2013 by 1 Comment

The biggest story at the American College of Cardiology meeting last week was the missing story. As reported here and just about everywhere else, the PREVAIL trial, probably the most-anticipated late-breaker of the meeting, was pulled from the program at the last minute by the ACC leadership after Boston Scientific broke the embargo by issuing…

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News Flash! Company Issues Incredibly Boring Press Release

September 14, 2012 by 1 Comment

Last week Abiomed issued a press release (reprinted below) that was about as dull as a press release can get. The main news of the press release was that the PROTECT II study testing the company’s Impella 2.5  circulatory support device had been published online in Circulation. The press release provides no details or information about…

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