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Open heart surgery is one of the most invasive surgeries performed. So it is no small feat feat to develop a heart pump that can be placed in the heart via an artery in the groin. Doctors at the Institute of Bioengineering at Brunei University and Royal Brompton Hospital are hoping to make their […]
Dr. ibear at Doc Around The Clock has a great sense of humor. Check out what he’s thinking when a heart patient comes into his emergency department.
Every once in a while when working the ED, we have a patient come in where we question whether or not their pacemaker is functioning correctly. In […]
Gloria at ThePharmVoice interviewed me for my opinions on healthcare blogging. Check it out!
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Dr. Samuel Weinstein was in El Salvador on a mercy mission. In the middle of performing a valve-replacement operation on an 8-year-old boy, he had to donate his own rare B-negative blood.
In the May 11 operation, which had begun 12 hours earlier, the boy’s failing aortic valve was replaced with his pulmonary valve and […]
This week’s Heart-to-Heart features Mom Writes by Mary Tsao who wrote about what running means to her:
I highly recommend the drug of running. It’s good for your head, your hips, and your heart. And I need a healthy heart because as a “mature mother,” my main goal is to live to see this little girl […]
This week’s heart condition in focus is angina pectoris.
Angina pectoris is the medical term for chest pain or discomfort due to coronary heart disease. Angina is a symptom of a condition called myocardial ischemia. It occurs when the heart muscle (myocardium) doesn’t get as much blood (hence as much oxygen) as it needs. […]
As far as I know, there aren’t too many blogs out there focusing specifically on cardiovascular disease or heart disease. The few that I know of either focus on the clinical aspects or preventive lifestyle measures like exercise, yoga, diet, etc. So what makes A Hearty Life special and unique?
First, A Hearty Life […]
Yet another reason to take care of your cardiovascular system. Preliminary studies conducted at the University of Hong Kong have found an increased risk of colorectal cancer and its precursors in people who have coronary artery disease (50% narrowing of a main artery).
The prevalence of colorectal neoplasia was 30.3% in coronary artery disease patients […]
New Zealand, Australia, Britain, and parts of the Asia-Pacific region are facing a shortage of protamine sulphate, a drug used in open heart surgery among other medical treatments. New Zealand was down to just a few weeks’ worth of the drug and none were to be delivered until September. This would mean that […]
Obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance all seem to occur together in a condition called metabolic syndrome. People with metabolic syndrome are not only at risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, and type 2 diabetes, they are also at higher risk of heart failure. In a recent study, […]
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