by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 11, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
From 1934 to 1977, Al Capp wrote the most-read comic strip in North America, Li’l Abner, about hillbillies in the fictional town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. It had 60 million daily readers in more than 1000 newspapers in 28 countries. Li’l Abner Yokum, a stupid...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 2, 2022 | Heart Health
Your blood pressure can vary so much throughout the day that a single measurement in a doctor’s office can give you a diagnosis of high blood pressure when you don’t have it, or miss high blood pressure when you do have it. I think that everyone should have a blood...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 31, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
John Madden was 32 years old when the Oakland Raiders hired him to become the youngest head coach ever in the National Football League. He went on never to have a losing season, with an outstanding 103-32-7 record in his 10 seasons with the team. They made the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 27, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu came from a very poor black family in South Africa during apartheid’s darkest hours to become Archbishop of Cape Town in 1985 at age 54. He led the movement to rid South Africa of its system of racial segregation and white...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 19, 2021 | Heart Health
Very aggressive control of high blood pressure helps to prevent heart attacks, strokes and premature death far more effectively than less stringent control (N Engl J Med, 2021 May 20;384(20):1921-1930). You cannot cure high blood pressure with drugs, you can only...
