Dr. Wes

"By releasing stolen and classified documents, Wikileaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights, but also the lives and wor...

Hey, it's fun AND free! Use your iPhone 4's camera to measure your heart rate . The application detects how the color of your fing...

From our house to yours, a tradition for the kids' plates on Thanksgiving: apple turkeys! Happy Thanksgiving! -Wes

Courtesy of Saturday Night Live . -Wes

It seems the Washington Post, cloaked under an anonymous author, wants to use scare tactics to keep most of us from enjoying Thanksgiving wi...

It's from an old post, but it's worth repeating: I am thankful for the teenagers who are complaining about doing chores -- that mean...

John Pistole, TSA administrator, acknowledged travelers' concerns about body-scanning machines that can see through clothing. He agreed ...

Five years ago, my wife and I started MedTees.com , a medical t-shirt web site that helps support a number of worthwhile charities and non-p...

Refractory hypertension might be approached with radiofrequency catheter ablation techniques in the future, provided it's found the cure...

Kim over at Emergiblog hosts this week's edition of the best of the medical blog-o-sphere: We’ll travel through the medical blogosphere...

I read this morning's New York Times article entitled " Mistakes Chronicled on Medicare Patients " and wondered what would th...

Now that health care reform has passed, ever wonder how much you'll have to pay for health insurance if you carry no employer-based insu...

How fast does sudden cardiac arrest cause unconsciousness? Just seconds. Here's video of Salamanca soccer player Miguel Garcia's ep...

Sudden cardiac death survivor stories are never boring. From the NY Post : A veteran Brooklyn high school athletic director suffered a near...

Seems the server's back up, photos and all. Thanks for your patience. -Wes

It seems the server where all my really juicy image content is stored has seen better days. Consequently, images are failing to appear on t...

I'm loving our new big-screen x-ray monitor recently installed in our newly-renovated EP lab: The easy video-switching capabilities of t...

The FDA will soon require new cigarette package labeling to deter smoking. So in politically-correct governmental fashion, they are asking...

If you haven't been introduced to 33 Charts , a blog by pediatric gastroenterologist Bryan Vartabedian, MD, ("Dr. V") take a m...

It's one thing to de-fund portions of the PPACA that are particularly egregious, but the Republicans must address and offer solutions t...