With the release today of updated European and US guidelines the ongoing controversy regarding beta-blockers appears to be resolved. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be an outbreak of guideline peace and harmony. The critics who helped ignite the controversy over beta blockers now say new statin recommendations contained in the guidelines are based on deeply flawed evidence….
This Blog Is ‘Not Suitable For Dissemination Through The Internet’
February 9, 2014 by 1 Comment
The editors of the prestigious European Heart Journal have decided that this blog, or at least one recent post, “is “not suitable for dissemination through the internet.” I beg to differ. In an EHJ editorial, Is the panic about beta-blockers in perioperative care justified?, the authors, the editors of the journal, led by editor-in-chief Thomas Lüscher, repeatedly criticize a post I wrote…
Embers Of Poldermans Case Still Smoldering
March 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A prominent US cardiologist has rebuked Don Poldermans, the cardiovascular researcher at the center of a research scandal in the Netherlands. As reported here previously, Poldermans was fired for scientific misconduct by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he had been a professor of medicine and the head of perioperative cardiac care. He was widely published and…
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