Heart failure patients treated with a device that synchronizes pumping in the heart's ventricles showed no improvement in exercise capacity, researchers report.
Eating nitrite/nitrate-rich foods such as vegetables and cured meats may help improve the chances of surviving a heart attack and of recovering more quickly.
Even a small amount of a protein called albumin in the urine of patients with stable coronary artery disease increases their risk of cardiovascular death, say U.S. researchers.
Babies with congenital heart defects are more likely to survive if they're treated at a hospital with the most experience in treating such cases, U.S. researchers conclude.
When I had my first appointment with Dr. Elizabeth Vliet, the nationally-renowned hormone expert who gave me back my life after a year of hell following my hysterectomy, she asked me a ...
BY DR. KATHY MAGLIATO
Director, Women’s Cardiac Surgical Services
Saint John’s Medical Center
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If you ask a group of women what is the most serious threat to their health, most will respond “breast cancer.” The fact of the matter is that heart disease is the number one killer of ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - KFC’s fried chicken buckets soon will be stamped with a health message along with the famous likeness of its founder, Colonel Harland Sanders.
When Michelle King Robson’s doctor gave her permission to look for her own solution, Michelle made a promise to share what she learned with her doctor.
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EmpowHer: Talk about identification. How do health care professionals identify a patient who has osteoporosis? What are the tests called, and are these tests commonly covered in most ...
EmpowHer: “If the average woman has a calcium intake below what is recommended and all I am seeing are young girls drinking sodas and not milk, at what age should young women start ...
Listen to Michelle King Robson explain why she contemplated ending her life and why her disinterested doctor’s made the experience so much more discouraging.
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Have you wondered if dairy is important to your over all health? Listen to Dr. Robert Heaney explain why women need to focus on their dairy intake as a prevention to the onset of ...
Internationally recognized in the field of bone, biology, and calcium nutrition, Dr. Robert Heaney from Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center checks in to explain, "If you do ...
How did Carol Blocker discover her daughter's mood was not normal? Find out when you listen to this portion of the interview with Melanie Stokes' mom.
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The mother of Melanie Stokes, Carol Blocker, shared with EmpowHer all the different ways her daughter kept planning her own suicide.
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When Melanie Blocker Stokes became pregnant, she seemed to have everything in place. She was a successful pharmaceutical sales manager happily married to a physician. But on February ...
