Herb medicine, especially multiherb prescriptions with a long history in China, is a cost-effective therapy for many diseases, such as Artemisinine for diarrhea [1,2], Glycyrrhizae for cough [3], and Jude-screen powder (Yupingfeng San) for some respiratory diseases [4,5]. Due to their extensive use and the optimistic therapeutic efficacy and safety, multiherb medicine plays an increasing import...

Abstract Purpose of the Review The purpose was to systematically review evidence on prevalence palpitations by menopausal stage. Palpitations are a feeling missed, irregular, or exaggerated heart beats. Recent Findings Carefully delineated search, screening, and data extraction strategies resulted in five articles for review. Articles offered cross-sectional findings from symptom surveys countr...

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are an experienced clinician working at a hospital emergency department. One morning, a 33-year-old man presents with palpitations. He describes the new onset of episodes of fast, regular chest pounding, which come on gradually, last 1 to 2 minutes, and occur several times a day. He reports no relation of symptoms to activities and no change in exercise tolerance. He is ve...

OBJECTIVE To determine the yield of 48-hour Holter monitoring in children with unexplained palpitations and the significance of associated symptoms. METHODS This descriptive study was conducted at the Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore, Pakistan, from January 1 to December 31, 2015. All children above 5 years of age with history of intermittent palpitations and normal b...

In movies or on TV, a wheel can seem to rotate backwards, due to the temporal subsampling inherent in the recording process (the wagon wheel illusion). Surprisingly, this effect has also been reported under continuous light, suggesting that our visual system, too, might sample motion in discrete "snapshots." Recently, these results and their interpretation have been challenged. Here, we investi...

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are an experienced clinician working at a hospital emergency department. One morning, a 33-year-old man presents with palpitations. He describes the new onset of episodes of fast, regular chest pounding, which come on gradually, last 1 to 2 minutes, and occur several times a day. He reports no relation of symptoms to activities and no change in exercise tolerance. He is ve...