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Current diagnostic protocols for identifying heart attack include taking at least two blood samples to test for cardiac enzymes during the first 12 hours after the onset of symptoms. But like many wom en...
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This month marks both the occasion of my mother’s birthday (she would have turned 84 on May 7th) and, of course, Mother’s Day – the first Mother’s day in living memory that I d idn...
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On this, the first Mother's Day since she died in February, I reflect on the first Mother's day in living memory when I didn't send my Mom a card and flowers.
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"Silent damage, death by stealth. An unfelt pain revealed . . . " Manchester, England's Lorraine Gradwell agreed to share with us the poem she wrote shortly after surviving what doctors call a "widow maker...
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Dr. Richard Smith, writing in the British Medical Journal last month, offered such a revealing overview of everything that is wrong in medicine that I feel compelled to share with you his recent artic le...
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You've no doubt already heard about this standard protocol for those who think they might be experiencing a heart attack: "Call 911 and chew one full-strength aspirin". So why are doctors telling hea rt...
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Another study shows that sitting is really, really, really bad for your health. Here's why you should consider getting a stand-up desk!
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Stress not only impairs formation and recall of long term memory and is strongly associated with clinical depression, but - of special interest to heart patients - it ironically seems to bring on a d ecreased...
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Cardiologist Dr. Noel Bairey-Merz of Cedars Sinai Medical Center tells us about the "Yentl" syndrome to help explain why women are still being under-diagnosed and under-treated when it comes to heart disease...
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"I can move seamlessly between devastation and endless hope", writes Allie, a heart attack survivor who describes what few cardiologists ever warn us about: that wild day-to-day emotional ride careeni ng...
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