Mellanie True Hills is a heart disease survivor and the author of the multiple award-winning book, “A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health & Longevity.” After having a brush with death in emergency heart surgery, Mellanie now uses her second chance to coach individuals in creating healthy lifestyles and organizations in creating healthy, productive workplaces. Mellanie's mission is to spread awareness on how to save your own life. She provides a message of hope and encouragement, sharing how to take control, decrease stress, and protect against heart disease. To further this mission, Mellanie is the founder and CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health and StopAfib.org, a patient advocacy resource for atrial fibrillation patients and their families.
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StopAfib.org founder Mellanie True Hills was honored to be interviewed at the recent PhRMA 2012 annual conference regarding atrial fibrillation and the quest to discover the root cause of atrial ...
May 8, 2012 - 7:46am
On May 9th, StopAfib.org will join with the Heart Rhythm Society for a citywide event in Boston kicking off "Cardiac Arrhythmia Awareness Month" in Massachusetts. The event, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 ...
May 3, 2012 - 5:03am
One of the dictionary definitions of stress is “a force that deforms a body.” Anyone with atrial fibrillation understands how stress deforms a body. Over the long run, stress accumulates, whether ...
May 3, 2012 - 4:44am
StopAfib.org had the great privilege of participating in the launch of the Global Atrial Fibrillation Patient Charter and the Sign Against Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation campaign at the World ...
April 18, 2012 - 5:16am
Mellanie True Hills, founder of StopAfib.org, spoke at the Fifth Annual Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium medical conference. Her remarks are summarized in her patient perspective column in ...
April 1, 2012 - 4:00pm
At the American College of Cardiology meeting last week, I discovered a neat project being tackled by Alere, the sponsor of PTINR.com, which is a web site we highly recommend for those taking ...
April 1, 2012 - 3:46pm
Recently, StopAfib.org partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to give you an opportunity to chat live with three of their atrial fibrillation experts, Dr. Walid Saliba, Dr Mandeep Bhargava, and Dr. ...
March 19, 2012 - 1:47pm
Team AFib presented a webinar, AFib CARE: Creating a Role for Effective Teams, in honor of National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month in 2011. A panel of healthcare providers and caregivers ...
March 7, 2012 - 5:57am
Atrial fibrillation is the most common irregular heart rhythm that starts in the atria. While it is often a mere annoyance, it can also be responsible for life-threatening medical emergencies ...
February 15, 2012 - 6:09am
The wildly beating heart, fatigue and other debilitating symptoms are well known to the many millions of people impacted by atrial fibrillation. Some of those who have afib may have no outward ...
February 13, 2012 - 5:13am
In this interview, Dr. Daniel Singer updates us on the new anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation stroke prevention that he presented about at Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium. He provided an ...
January 25, 2012 - 6:15am
At Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2012, Dr. Hugh Calkins, electrophysiologist at Johns Hopkins, presented the new 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical ...
January 24, 2012 - 7:41am
Dr. John Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist in Louisville, Kentucky, who blogs at Dr. John M, live-blogged the 2012 Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium. He has given us permission to reprint ...
January 19, 2012 - 11:15am
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:30 a.m. breakfast9:00 - 10:00 a.m. program National Press Club529 14th Street NWWashington, DCPlan to join WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart ...
January 9, 2012 - 7:02am
Results from FAST, the first-ever randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of minimally invasive surgical ablation (also called the mini maze procedure) for atrial fibrillation and catheter ...
January 9, 2012 - 6:54am
Our January EP Lab Digest Patient Perspective column, Stuck in the Middle: Afib Patients on Rate Control, focuses on how rate control treatment (such as beta blockers) alone impacts the quality of ...
January 5, 2012 - 12:31pm
The holidays seem to bring on lots of atrial fibrillation (afib), often attributed to a condition called "Holiday Heart Syndrome", which is supposedly caused by consuming too much alcohol and ...
December 26, 2011 - 12:04pm
At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2011, Dr. Sanjiv Narayan presented the high success rate of the FIRM trial of focal and rotor catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.Watch ...
December 9, 2011 - 6:50am
A recent New England Journal of Medicine article reported on the results of the ARISTOTLE trial comparing the effectiveness of apixaban and warfarin for atrial fibrillation stroke prevention. ...
November 30, 2011 - 11:04am
At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2011, Dr. John Mandrola presented a poster on gender-specific results of atrial fibrillation ablation in a private practice setting. In this ...
November 28, 2011 - 6:12am
Recently StopAfib.org partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to give you an opportunity to chat live with two of their atrial fibrillation experts, Dr. Walid Saliba and Dr. David Van Wagoner, who ...
November 14, 2011 - 6:01am
An FDA advisory panel voted that the overall benefits outweighed the risks in afib ablations using the AtriCure Synergy bipolar radiofrequency clamp. This was based on the results of the ABLATE ...
November 9, 2011 - 6:05am
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Xarelto (rivaroxaban) to reduce stroke risk in those with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (afib unrelated to heart valve problems). Xarelto is now ...
November 7, 2011 - 6:14am
The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA), in partnership with WomenHeart, Mended Hearts and The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, will host free heart health ...
October 27, 2011 - 5:05am
In this important video interview at Venice Arrhythmias, Professor Gregory Lip discusses the importance of the CHA2DS2-VASc scoring tool for predicting atrial fibrillation stroke risk and why ...
October 24, 2011 - 5:16am
In this important video interview at Venice Arrhythmias, Professor Gregory Lip discusses the importance of the CHA2DS2-VASc scoring tool for predicting atrial fibrillation stroke risk and why ...
October 24, 2011 - 5:15am
Atrial fibrillation is the most common irregular heart rhythm that starts in the atria. While it is often a mere annoyance, it can also be responsible for life-threatening medical emergencies ...
October 17, 2011 - 5:17am
Raising afib awareness is intensely personal for StopAfib.org founder, Mellanie True Hills, and led her to create the first Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month in 2007. Working with other ...
September 28, 2011 - 4:48am
September is Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. Lots of folks don’t know too much about the condition, which is an irregular heart beat that can lead to serious complications such as dementia, ...
September 27, 2011 - 4:39am
By Mellanie True Hills
September is Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. A lot of folks may ask: Why do we need a month devoted to afib? Or, even, what is atrial fibrillation, anyway? Afib is ...
September 21, 2011 - 5:17am
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee just voted 9-2, with 1 abstaining, to recommend that the FDA approve rivaroxaban (Xarelto) for prevention of atrial fibrillation strokes. ...
September 10, 2011 - 11:05am
StopAfib.org is among a group of experts calling today for urgent action to prevent an atrial fibrillation stroke crisis in Latin America. Action for Stroke Prevention, a group of health experts ...
September 8, 2011 - 6:56am
Our September EP Lab Digest Patient Perspective column, Stopping Atrial Fibrillation is Big News!, focuses on activities taking place during Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, including public ...
September 7, 2011 - 8:07am
Just ahead of the FDA Advisory Committee hearing on rivaroxaban for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, we report in more depth on the ROCKET-AF trial results published recently in the New ...
September 6, 2011 - 5:27am
A brand new tool, Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care (AFIP), was just released at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Paris. This tool may be useful for afib patients and their ...
September 1, 2011 - 8:50am
In honor of Atrial Fibrillation (Afib) Awareness Month, Team AFib would like to invite you to our second webinar, “AFib CARE: Creating A Role for Effective Teams”, taking place at 1:00 p.m. ET on ...
August 16, 2011 - 5:19am
In her first regular Patient Perspective column, which appears in the August issue of EP Lab Digest, StopAfib.org founder Mellanie True Hills explores a concern in the atrial fibrillation patient ...
August 15, 2011 - 3:00pm
StopAfib.org would like to applaud and thank Sen. Michael Crapo [R-ID], Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA], Sen. Daniel Inouye [D-HI], Sen. Daniel Akaka [D-HI], Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL], and Sen. Patrick ...
August 10, 2011 - 9:53am
As a patient, you probably see lots of hype-filled reports about various drugs. After a drug is approved, there’s an inevitable blitz of negative publicity which often scares people away from ...
August 9, 2011 - 9:20am
The US FDA has just announced that on September 8, 2011, the FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee will meet to review whether to recommend approval of rivaroxaban (brand name ...
July 6, 2011 - 6:08pm
StopAfib.org founder Mellanie True Hills was honored to be interviewed at the recent PhRMA 2012 annual conference regarding atrial fibrillation and the quest to discover the root cause of atrial ...
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