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To the untrained eye, this Lifecard CF Digital Holter Recorder cardiac monitor could appear to be an MP3 player, cell phone, or some other everyday consumer electronics. Perhaps thinking just that, burglars in the UK stole two-year-old Stephen Og Leckey’s heart monitor this past weekend. The Lifecard CF was to provide continuous ECG […]
This week’s Heart-to-Heart features Lily T at Lily Loss Lbs. She attended a family reunion this weekend which brought to light her family history of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
The annual family reunion was yesterday. It was an all day affair, starting off as a picnic and ending at my parents’ house. I was […]
An article in the New York Times discusses the higher than average rate of angioplasties in Elyria, Ohio which is mainly attributed to cardiologists at the local hospital.
Whether the preference for angioplasty is good for the patients of Elyria is open to medical debate. The cardiology group’s leader says the high rate of angioplasties is […]
Supermodel Rachel Hunter is the new face of Benecol, spreads that contain cholesterol-lowering plant stanol esters. Hunter has a personal involvement with heart disease since she has had a heart murmur since the age of 12. Her father has had two heart bypass operations.
The problem worsened a bit after I had [older […]
Grace Ibay of Flu Patrol is a busy woman who’s got to stay healthy and strong not just for herself but for her daughter. Here are her Hearty Habits.
1. Washing hands, definitely. But especially because my daughter’s allergic to multiple food that I wash my hands and mouth area after eating to be “allergic-free” […]
At a week-long camp I attended when I was in fourth grade, we were allowed visits to the convenience store on a daily basis. My favorite snack back then was Doritos and I had more than my share of it that week. I believe I scarfed down a 7 oz. bag every other […]
Today’s Hearty Habits come from Tammy who’s so serious about getting fit that she started a blog documenting her journey - Fat and 40.
1) Walk anywhere from 20 minutes to 45 minutes depending on my time and energy, but the key for me is to try to do it everyday. This way it becomes a […]
In a British seaside town yesterday, lightning struck a 12-year-old girl and put her in intensive care. She was walking a dog with two friends who were also struck by lightning. All three were found lying in a line with two of them conscious and the third unconscious with no pulse.
According to the Merck […]
Cynthia’s Summer Adventure is a major one. She just had septal myectomy surgery on Friday, August 11th, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. From her first post:
In the surgery I am scheduled for, called a septal “myectomy,” Dr. Dearani will remove a portion of the thickened muscle from the […]
Can you see the matchbox-sized pacemaker protruding from this baby’s belly? Jesse Osmond of Queensland, Australia was born less than two weeks ago with heart block and is now one of youngest pacemaker recipient in the world.
What is heart block?
Sometimes the signal from the heart’s upper to lower chambers is impaired or doesn’t transmit. […]
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