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Welcome to The Activated Patient Blog
Banksy photo by Eva Blue. Our Activated Patient Blog and Twitter feed provide up-to-the minute information for patients making decisions about heart disease treatment, and seeking to control their...
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Five Questions Patients Need To Ask
While medical research continually expands the treatment options that doctors can offer heart disease patients, the adoption of new techniques is not universal. Studies show a wide variation in the...
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Patient Representative to Vote on Practice Guidelines: One Small Step for a...
Where no patient has gone before…. On Tuesday the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines announced that, for the first time, it will...
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The Edutainment Approach to Health: Dr. Oz and the “Radical New Procedure” of...
Photo by Arte y Fotografía Millions of people were exposed to the concept of the radial, (or wrist), approach to angioplasty recently, when the Dr. Oz show featured catheterization via the wrist in its...
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Singing On The Table: Be Activated in 2013 with a Non-Resolution
An operatic tenor in action… One of the intriguing things about angioplasty when it was first introduced, was that patients undergoing this profound, life-changing heart treatment remain awake...
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